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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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"A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart."

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"It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger."

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"Anger is the most effective inspiration."

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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."

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"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."

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"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"

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"All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it."

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"Anger cannot be dishonest."

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"If I still need someone to calm my anger down,then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me."

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"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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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
"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."

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Barbara Deming
"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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Barbara Deming
"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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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."

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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
"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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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."

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