Barbara Deming
Activist
1917-07-23 – 1984-08-02
Barbara Deming was an American feminist writer and advocate of nonviolent social change. Her essays and organizing work influenced peace, civil rights, and feminist movements.
Quotes by Barbara Deming
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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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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.
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
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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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