Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Barbara Deming
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it.. The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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