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It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Barbara Deming

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

Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
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

Diversity Peace Real
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
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
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
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
BARBARA DEMING

Able Antagonist Gains Real
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

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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