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Barbara Deming
We learn best...
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for...
The longer we...
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That...
Think first of...
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's...
I think the...
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming...
Make it impossible...
Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply...
I learned always...
I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others...
To resort to...
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action...
A great many...
A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of...
Vengeance is not...
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...
Nonviolent actions does...
Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their...