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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.

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.
BARBARA DEMING

Change Point Vengeanc
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
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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Change Long Running
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Differences Justice Voice
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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Able Antagonist Gains Real
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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Great Men Moving Obedience
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
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 cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Anger Determination Thinking
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

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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