"I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity."

"There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents."

"There are a lot of myths about gay people."

"One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."

"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend."

"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive."

"No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions."

"But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art."

"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."

"The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better."

"An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity."

"It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity."

"We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle."

"...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it."

"This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.'"

"Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence."

"There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle."

"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."

"Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge."

"When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human."

"We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves."

"Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things."

"In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means."