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Barbara Deming

"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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"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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"The pursuit of your vision determines your focus."

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"It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!"

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"Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer's inner vision."

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"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There should be no censorship of mail."
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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
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"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
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"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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