QUOTES
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 exchange with one another
life stories and not simply opinions.
Think
first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's
fears.
I
think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that
abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent
tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive
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.
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.
A
great many of us must move from words to acts
It
is my stubborn faith that if, as revolutionaries, we will wage battle without
violence, we can remain very much more in control - of our selves, of the responses
to us which our adversaries make, of the battle as it proceeds, and of the future
we hope will issue from it.
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 need at last to form
a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... we do not
belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.
"We
need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people
as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all,
in which all of us are seen as equal.
