Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought … - Barbara Deming

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So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

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.

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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

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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 differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

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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.

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It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

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