The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

We cannot walk alone.