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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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Donna Grant

"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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Donna Grant

"When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another."

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Donna Grant

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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Donna Grant

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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Donna Grant

"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

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Donna Grant

"Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us."

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Donna Grant

"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

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Donna Grant

"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments."

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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
"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
"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
"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
"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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Barbara Deming
"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

Heart

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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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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
"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."

Love

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