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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."
"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
"The most valuable thing you own is your heart. Guard it well."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
"All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away."
"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
"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."
"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
"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."
"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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