Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. — Barbara Deming Action 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 Accepting 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 Abandon 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 Action Copy Share Image
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. — Barbara Deming Action Copy Share Image
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. — Barbara Deming Courage Copy Share Image
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am. — Barbara Deming Let me 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… — Barbara Deming Mean Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Freedom Copy Share Image
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort… — Barbara Deming Change Copy Share Image
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.… — Barbara Deming Affliction Copy Share Image
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying… — Barbara Deming Destroying 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 Circles 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 Humans 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 Judgment Copy Share Image
“Yes, they manage to sound very reasonable to themselves as they talk of deterring others from crime; but the act of putting… — Barbara Deming Man In Jail Copy Share Image
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. — Barbara Deming Antagonist 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 Change Copy Share Image
there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this… — Barbara Deming Anger 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 Able Copy Share Image
