The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.