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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
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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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"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 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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