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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
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
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
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
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
Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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 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
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
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
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding

We cannot live without our lives

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