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

—Barbara Deming

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About Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American lesbian feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.

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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 resorting to physical strength?

—Barbara Deming

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

—Albert Einstein

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I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers.

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I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

—Hunter S. Thompson

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But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

—Philip Ó Ceallaigh

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

—Pearl Bailey

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History

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