Able Quote by Barbara Deming

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

— Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

— Barbara Deming

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

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming…

— Barbara Deming

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

— Barbara Deming

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

— Barbara Deming

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

— Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

— Barbara Deming

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

— Barbara Deming

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

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

— Barbara Deming

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming