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The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

Barbara Deming

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
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Change Mind People
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
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Cutting Harm Little People Revolution
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
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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Diversity Peace Real
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
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
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding

The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

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The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

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