Barbara Deming Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• 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

  Determination, Anger, Thinking

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

• What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Lying, Thinking

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  Barbara Deming

  Cutting, People, Littles

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

• 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”

• Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “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

  Determination, Opportunity, Thinking

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