"We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones."

"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings."

"We are quite obviously faced with a need to organize some small defenses to the more flagrant abuses of the system no…"

"In a head-on clash between violence and power, the outcome is hardly in doubt. Nowhere is the self-defeating factor i…"

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. It is the only resort by which incompetent men can thrive. The bully,…"

"The "hard law of value," the "law set in stone"—when it abandons us, what sadness, what panic! This is why there are …"

"I had long put on one side the purist pacifist view that one should have nothing to do with a social revolution if an…"

"No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat …"

"Violence as a tool is already operating in the world before anyone takes it up: that fact alone neither justifies nor…"

"Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved …"