- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
- Brotherly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
- Neighbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
- Commonality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be no censorship of mail.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020