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Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

Barbara Deming

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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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
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
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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 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
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
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.
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Anger Determination Healthy
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

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