Barbara Deming Quotes About Vengeance

• Vengeance is not the point: change is.

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  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

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  Hurt   Struggle   Moving  

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• 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.

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  Change   People   Mind  

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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