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

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

Barbara Deming quotes: Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

Barbara Deming quotes: Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

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

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

Barbara Deming quotes: Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Barbara Deming quotes: Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Barbara Deming quotes: A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming quotes: All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

Barbara Deming quotes: A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Barbara Deming quotes: People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Barbara Deming quotes: The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

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

Barbara Deming quotes: We cannot live without our lives

We cannot live without our lives

Barbara Deming quotes: I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Barbara Deming quotes: It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Barbara Deming quotes: There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

Barbara Deming quotes: There should be no censorship of mail.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Barbara Deming quotes: Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.