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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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Great Men Moving Obedience
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
BARBARA DEMING

Argument Heart Pressure
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

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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