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Of what does freedom of the human spirit consist, that quality on which I place so much stress?
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
My respect and admiration for Gandhi, though not uncritical, was deep.
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
Efficiency can in no way supplant morality.
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
I balk at the notion of contributing so directly to making atomic hash of others and perhaps of my own wonderful self.
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
I would not do anything, only suffer what was done to me.
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
If I could choose a title for myself, I think I would be a 'want to be' practitioner of non-violence.
Let me first excise the horns from my own head, since it was made, I think, for something besides butting.
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
We were interested in how we lived every day, not just going out to a demonstration, not just voting, and not just writing letters.
how can one have respect for others without self-respect?
A Matter of Freedom (1988)
(While living in Cincinnati) somebody said to us, "The birds and the bees don't live together; why should the blacks and the whites live together?"
That's the only way you can stop war, stop participating in it, and stop so much consumption that requires war, at least that's the way I look at it.
I sometimes regretted having left Howard because they did some bus testing. Because you know, DC is surrounded—Virginia, Maryland and so forth, and they were all, of course, very segregated, too.