Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.