Barbara Deming Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Names

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  Barbara Deming

  Jail, Doubt, Trying

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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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.

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  Mean, Neighbor, Should

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• We cannot live without our lives

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  Our Lives

  Barbara Deming (1985). “Prisons that Could Not Hold”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

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

  Barbara Deming

  People, Needs

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

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  Real, Able, Gains

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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

  Barbara Deming

  Fear, Thinking, Firsts

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• there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

  Barbara Deming

  Determination, Anger, Healthy

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Two

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

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  People, Our Society, Prison

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

  Barbara Deming

  Hurt, Struggle, Moving

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• A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

  Barbara Deming

  Moving, Great Men, Obedience

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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

  Nice, Doe, Action

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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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

  Believe, Names, Balance

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  Barbara Deming

  Moving, Men, Tactics

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• There should be no censorship of mail.

  Barbara Deming

  Mail, Censorship, Should

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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