"Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?"

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Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

Barbara Deming

#Peace Quotes #Effectiveness Quotes #Wife Quotes

“When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.”
“I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts.”
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.”
“My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!”
“I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.”
“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
“Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation”
“Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.”

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