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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Source: Barbara Deming Memorial Peace Walk, at www.rpi.edu/~mccabd/bdwords.html.
-- Barbara Deming, (Jul 23 1917-1984), US political activist, author, pacifist; She wrote and spoke about the connections between feminism and nonviolence; wrote Prisons That Could Not Hold, 1995.

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