most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those… — Barbara Deming Assumption Copy Share Image
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives.… — Barbara Deming Another life Copy Share Image
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can… — Barbara Deming Bones Copy Share Image
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No… — Barbara Deming Certain 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 Action Copy Share Image
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. — Barbara Deming Needs Copy Share Image
“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I… — Barbara Deming Abolition Copy Share Image
“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in… — Barbara Deming Abolition Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own… — Barbara Deming Able Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Disobedience 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 Accuracy 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 Assertion Copy Share Image
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced… — Barbara Deming He man 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 Cutting Copy Share Image
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with… — Barbara Deming Acting 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 Battle Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. — Barbara Deming Conscience 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 Action 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… — Barbara Deming Communication Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Affliction Copy Share Image
