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We cannot live without our lives

Barbara Deming

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try – by punishing the troublesome – to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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Doubt Jail Trying
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Anger Determination Thinking
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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Choices Enemy Thinking
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.
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Being Brotherhood Free Men
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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
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 cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.
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Change Long Running
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Argument Heart Pressure
A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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Great Men Moving Obedience
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

We cannot live without our lives

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