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Barbara Deming

"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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"Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??We know to much so let's remove us??"

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"When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream."

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"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

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"Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough."

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"Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live."

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"After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?"

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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

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"No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools."

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

Justice

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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."

Anger

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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
"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."

Action

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Barbara Deming
"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."

Time

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Barbara Deming
"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."

Doubt

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Barbara Deming
"There should be no censorship of mail."

Government

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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."

Man

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Barbara Deming
"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."

Life

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