After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately to give help to the person who has been injured.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.Barbara Deming
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.
Barbara Deming
To impose upon another man's freedom to kill, or his freedom to help to kill, to recruit to kill, is not to violate his person in a fundamental way.
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A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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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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