Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.