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Barbara Deming

"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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"Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love."

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"Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life."

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"Dream, desire, and then dare to discover."

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"When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life."

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"The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively."

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"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"

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"PULL and PUSH" are basic principles of life. You must PULL to work hard and then PUSH to give hard"... The reason why we gain is to give!"

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"In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance."

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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

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"Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing."

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Barbara Deming
"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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Barbara Deming
"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."

Society

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"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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"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

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Barbara Deming
"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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"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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Barbara Deming
"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."

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"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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"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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"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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