Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most peoples 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
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
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but were being fooled, because democracy is not the election. Weve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isnt. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. Its the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. – Gael Garcia Bernal