From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... movement?
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Was it a reform movement?
2.
... movement.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
3.
... movement among
alcoholics which started in Baltimore ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism.
4.
... movement, early
A.A. members resolved to keep ...
12&12 p.179,
Tradition Ten
As we surveyed the wreck
of that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.
5.
... movement, giving
it unstinted support and endorsement.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Clergymen and doctors
alike rallied to the new movement, giving it unstinted support and endorsement.
6.
... movement now
growing up among them.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic
movement now growing up among them.
7.
... movement, started
and stayed broke, while its ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
8.
... movement that
cannot be duplicated.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
"I think that psychologically speaking there is a point of
advantage in the approach that is being made in this movement that cannot
be duplicated.
9.
... movement which
can and does create a ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
How, then, can we have an unorganized movement which can and does create
a service organization for itself?
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