History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.