Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.

Date of birth:
23rd July, 1917
Date of death:
2nd August, 1984
"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
Topic(s): Change
"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
Topic(s): Respect
"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
Topic(s): Anger

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