Vengeance is not the point: change is.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

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

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

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

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

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.