Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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
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.
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
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming
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