"I had felt for a long time that the two struggles for disarmament and for Negro rights-were properly parts of the one struggle. The same nonviolent tactic joined us, but more than this: our struggles were fundamentally one-to commit our country in act as well as in word to the extraordinary faith announced in our Declaration of Independence: that all men are endowed with certain rights that must not be denied them."
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"Southern Peace Walk Two Issues or One?" (1961)
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Barbara Deming
Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was a feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change who lived in the USA.
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