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

Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger’s throat.
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Pulse Spiritual Stranger
There should be no censorship of mail.
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Censorship Mail Regulation Strict
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
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
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
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
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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
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
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
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
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
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
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try – by punishing the troublesome – to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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Doubt Jail Trying

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

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