Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.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
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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
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
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