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

Barbara Deming

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
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
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
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
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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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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
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

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

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