Vengeance is not the point: change is.

We cannot live without our lives

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.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.