Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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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
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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
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.
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.
Barbara Deming
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