The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. — 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 resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power… — 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 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
