Barbara Deming Quotes About Nonviolence

Quotes about: Nonviolence

• A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

  Barbara Deming

  Strength, Movement, Liberation

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

• Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Effectiveness, Wife

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

• 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

  Thinking, Choices, Enemy

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

• 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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