Vengeance is not the point: change is.

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

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

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

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

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.

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.