Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

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.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

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

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.