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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.

Barbara Deming

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
BARBARA DEMING

Need Speak Violent
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
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Lying Peace Thinking
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely

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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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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