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

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"Wishes and wants do not transform a person, actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently."

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"You can't be living always in the promise of the clouds, it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking. It will yield an indelible impact!"

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"Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you."

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"Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!"

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"Not now easily grows to become "never", You either do it now or lose it forever!"

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"Stop making excuses and start making history."

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"Effectiveness of love must be measured by concrete results."

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"What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success."

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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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"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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"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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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
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"There should be no censorship of mail."
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"To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience."
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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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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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"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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"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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