If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. I…

- Dorothy Cotton

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

- Dorothy Cotton

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

- Dorothy Cotton