To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.