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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.

Barbara Deming

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
BARBARA DEMING

Able Antagonist Gains Real
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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 cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
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
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
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Anger Determination Healthy
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely

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