The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one ….

People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our sit….

Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in soc….

We cannot live without our lives.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am..

It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a….

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek..

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat..

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and enga….

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am..

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

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another..

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lo….

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 res….

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

There should be no censorship of mail..

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we….

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles….

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations..

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..

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains..