Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

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

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

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

Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.