“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
“Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.” -Barbara Deming
“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