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Barbara Deming

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.

Barbara Deming

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Barbara Deming is saying that we should change the kind of anger that causes pain into a focused anger that drives us to make improvements. She suggests that this transformation of anger into purposeful action is what defines a revolution.

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