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

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

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

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

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.

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.

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