No one who has ever touched liberation could possibly want anything other than liberation for everyone.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous—even death is terrible only if we fear it.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Your uprising against the forces of darkness has got to do more than say “no.” A fierce, primal yes should be at the heart of your crusade.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.

Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty.

The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.