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Barbara Deming

"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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Donna Grant

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

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Donna Grant

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

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Donna Grant

"Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth."

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Donna Grant

"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"

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Donna Grant

"Anger is a ghost.Human is the host."

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Donna Grant

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."

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Donna Grant

"I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered."

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Donna Grant

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which "charges a [new] karmic seed."

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Donna Grant

"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!"

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Barbara Deming
"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."

Change

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

People

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Barbara Deming
"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."

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Barbara Deming
"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."

Man

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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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Barbara Deming
"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."

Change

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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."

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

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Barbara Deming
"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."

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