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Barbara Deming

American Author

Born: 1917

Died: 1984

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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

Change Anger Determination Affliction Revolution Think Our Definition About Give Fact Could Course Task In Fact Bring

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. Barbara Deming

Punishment Spirits Only Heal Break Cannot Them

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced. Barbara Deming

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. Barbara Deming

Vision Behavior Enemies Will Think Our Abandon Adopt Only Naming Concept Enable Nonviolent Tradition Oppressive Familiar Hold Us Choice

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. Barbara Deming

People Others Those Attack Undermine Doing Who Need

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

Love Our Neighbors Ourselves Equally Us Should Means Injunction

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

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