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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

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
BARBARA DEMING

Fear First Thinking
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.
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Being Brotherhood Free Men
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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
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
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Cutting Harm Little People Revolution
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
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
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Change Long Running

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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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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