The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

We cannot live without our lives

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

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

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.

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

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.