"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."

Act, Being, Brotherhood, Freedom

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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."

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"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."

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"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."

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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."

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"We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also."

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"To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience."

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"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."

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

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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."

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