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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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.
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Always Deep Judgment Obiient Sense
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
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
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
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Another Courage Nerve Surely
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
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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
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
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.
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Change Long Running
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
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
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
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

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