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Barbara Deming

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
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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Anger Determination Thinking
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
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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Balance Believe Name
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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.
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Differences Justice Voice
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
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
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

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