What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we nee….

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….

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the….

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

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being o….

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….

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience..

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 ….

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….

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern..

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchang….

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences..

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….

We cannot live without our lives.

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

Vengeance is not the point: change is..

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrenc….

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors..

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy c….