I think the only choice tha... by Barbara Deming, an American Author

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“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.”

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Name: Barbara Deming

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1917

Date of Death: 1984

Profession: Author

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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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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

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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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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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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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