"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."
-Barbara Deming
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"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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"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
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"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."
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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."
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