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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Barbara Deming

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.
BARBARA DEMING

Always Deep Judgment Obiient Sense
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
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
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
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
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
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.
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Cutting Harm Little People Revolution
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
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

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

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