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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 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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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
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

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
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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

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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