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

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
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
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
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
Vengeance is not the point: change is.
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Change Point Vengeanc
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
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Liberation Movement Strength
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
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
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
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
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
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
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 tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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