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A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming

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
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
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.
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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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
The point is to change one’s life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Destroying Emotion Giving
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength

A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

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