Make it impossible for the authority to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
More Quotes from Barbara Deming:
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.Barbara Deming
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
After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason wanting to keep people from harming others.
Barbara Deming
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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.
Barbara Deming
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
Barbara Deming
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