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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

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
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
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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Destroying Emotion Giving
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
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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Lying Peace Thinking
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Experience Mean Men Name Simply
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
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
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
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Being Brotherhood Free Men

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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