Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

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.

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

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.

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.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.