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We cannot live without our lives

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
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
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
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
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
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
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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

We cannot live without our lives

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