The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love… — 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
I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own… — 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
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know… — 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
