Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.

Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of...

Don’t oppress, don’t accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

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...