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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
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
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 point is to change one’s life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Destroying Emotion Giving
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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Differences Justice Voice
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
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.
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Experience Mean Men Name Simply
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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