"A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed."

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

Barbara Deming

#Strength Quotes #Movement Quotes #Liberation Quotes

“Life is taking you somewhere, listen to the messages, they will repeat until you follow their call.”
“I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.”
“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”
“What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.”
“I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.”
“When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.”
“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”

Source : International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.
“Youâ€™ve gotta keep control of your time, and you canâ€™t unless you say no. You canâ€™t let people set your agenda in life.”

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