Barbara Deming Quotes

There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

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.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.