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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Barbara Deming

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
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.
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Always Deep Judgment Obiient Sense
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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?
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Effectiveness Peace Wife
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
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
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

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