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

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.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

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

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

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.