Barbara Deming – 3 Quotes

3 Quotes by 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

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

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