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Barbara Deming

"There should be no censorship of mail."

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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

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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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"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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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
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"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
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"There should be no censorship of mail."
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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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