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.

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.

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

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

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.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.