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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.

Barbara Deming

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
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
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
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 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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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 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
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict

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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