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 p…
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Barbara Deming
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About Barbara Deming
Barbara Deming was an American lesbian feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Barbara DemingVengeance 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.
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.