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Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.

Barbara Deming

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
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
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
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.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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
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
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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Choices Enemy Thinking
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
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 own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.

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