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Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others – even others better than I am.
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Always Deep Judgment Obiient Sense
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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Our People Prison Society
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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Action Doe Nice
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist – if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
BARBARA DEMING

Experience Mean Men Name Simply
there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one’s whole being in the determination: this must change.
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Anger Determination Healthy
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal… We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.
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Lying Peace Thinking
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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Balance Believe Name
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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Injunction Mean Neighbor Ourselves
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
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Need Speak Violent
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
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Fear First Thinking
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.
BARBARA DEMING

Being Brotherhood Free Men
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

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