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  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. Download This Image
  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
  • Barbara Deming Quote - Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. Download This Image

    This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? Download This Image

    Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. Download This Image

    People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. Download This Image

    Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others – even others better than I am.

    I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others – even others better than I am.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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.

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am. Download This Image

    Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Download This Image

    Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

    BARBARA DEMING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Deming Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA DEMING