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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

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
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
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
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.
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Change Long Running
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
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.
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Lying Peace Thinking

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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