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

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 can master them now.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

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

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

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 coincide.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

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

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

Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.