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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Break Cannot Heal Only Punishment Spirits Them

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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Act Before Being Bone Born Brotherhood Build Come Free Free Man Freedom Full Man Muscle Must Only Our Out Trying Very Will Won

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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

Topics: Equally Love Means Neighbors Our Ourselves Should Us

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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

Topics: All Our Lives Another Attention Careful Commonality Exchange Find Life Listen Lives Longer More Opinions Our Our Lives Real Simply Stories Will

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There should be no censorship of mail.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Censorship Mail Should

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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: About Action Coping Fears First Later Right Take Think

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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Antagonist Argument Concern Heart Human More Pressure Put Show Whom

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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.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Act Acting Balance Believe Dual Fact Force In Fact Little Matched Name Other Our Out Power Precisely Respect Source Unless Would

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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

Topics: Also Best Differences Learn Listen Listening Other Our Out Own Same Same Time Stories Time Turn Voices Well Whose Women

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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Action Be Nice Consult Does Effect Force Get Nice Nonviolent Others Them

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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