“To assert violence did not occur is to depend on the very concept of violence whose inherent emptiness the assertion denies.”

“Another man’s violence is outside my control; my judgment of its injustice is the only thing I own.”

“All I know is what I read, and I read that nobody ever did nothing to nobody, which is the official story everywhere.”

“A government that denies the self-evident truth of a man's suffering forfeits the consent of the governed.”

“A nation's moral character is revealed not in its grand pronouncements but in its treatment of the powerless man in the dark.”

“An experiment in authority that refuses to admit contrary evidence is not philosophy but superstition.”

“The oldest cruelty is the iron belief that a man’s suffering is not real if the powerful declare it a fiction.”

“The man who cries out against his chains is answered not with reason but with a louder denial that the chains exist.”