Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.