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

most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

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.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

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

People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.