Democracy requires social peace, the illusion that, in a society based on exploitation and domination, everyone can get along and nobody's fundamenta… - Peter Gelderloos

The goal of our criticism should be solidarity, not homogeneity.

The imperative of nonviolence overrides the basic respect of trusting people to liberate themselves.

Time and again, people struggling not for some token reform but for complete liberation — the reclamation of control over our own lives and the power to negotiate our own relationships with the people and world around us — will find that nonviolence does not work, that we face a self-perpetuating power structure that is immune to appeals to conscience and strong enough to plow over the disobedient and uncooperative.