Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
BARBARA DEMINGLet me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
More Barbara Deming Quotes
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The point is to change one’s life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist – if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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We cannot live without our lives
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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.
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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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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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A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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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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