Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,'… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. — Barbara Deming Copy Share
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both… — Barbara Deming Copy Share
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming… — Barbara Deming Copy Share
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming Copy Share
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. — Barbara Deming Copy Share
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. — Barbara Deming Copy Share
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 Copy Share
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are… — Barbara Deming Copy Share
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think,… — Barbara Deming Copy Share
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share
