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.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

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

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

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.