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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

Barbara Deming

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
BARBARA DEMING

Cutting Harm Little People Revolution
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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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Change Mind People
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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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Injunction Mean Neighbor Ourselves
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
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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Being Brotherhood Free Men
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
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
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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Argument Heart Pressure
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
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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Experience Mean Men Name Simply
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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

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