“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.”

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”

“We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”

“We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.”