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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... movement?   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Was it a reform movement?


2.
... movement.   BB xxviii(xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire 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   Display entire 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
So A.A., the movement, started and stayed broke, while its individual members waxed prosperous.


8.
... movement that cannot be duplicated.   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
"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?


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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