People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
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 Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
