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.

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.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

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

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.

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

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.