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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

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
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
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
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Able Antagonist Gains Real
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
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
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
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

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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