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

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

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.

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

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

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.