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A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.
BARBARA DEMING

Change Point Vengeanc
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?
BARBARA DEMING

Effectiveness Peace Wife
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
BARBARA DEMING

Our People Prison Society
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Break Punishment Spirit
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
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Men Moving Tactic
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Attack Need People Rationalization
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
We cannot live without our lives
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Happen Life Live Our Surrounding
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.
BARBARA DEMING

Anger Determination Thinking
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
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Change Mind People
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
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Happen Live Moment Place Time
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 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.
BARBARA DEMING

Lying Peace Thinking

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