A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. —Barbara Deming More about this quote Tags: nonviolence violence oppression liberation oppressed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Barbara Deming Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.
More quotations from Barbara Deming 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 More about this quote Tags: strength nonviolence women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: strength nonviolence women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “violence” 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 More about this quote Tags: war heroism morality music violence patriotism killing murder civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. —Hunter S. Thompson More about this quote Tags: hate insanity violence drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: soul sanity violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: hunger learning violence producing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: war heroism morality music violence patriotism killing murder civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. —Hunter S. Thompson More about this quote Tags: hate insanity violence drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: soul sanity violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: hunger learning violence producing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email