Barbara Deming

Quotes

• “Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in whic...”
• “...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi...”
• “I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and...”
• “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about ch...”
• “We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our...”
• “Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thou...”