Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
BARBARA DEMINGThe 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.
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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A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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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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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
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Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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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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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one’s fears.
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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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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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We cannot live without our lives
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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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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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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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