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

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

We cannot live without our lives

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

What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.