"In this instance of the fire-arms, the..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.”

“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”

“Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.”

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

“One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.”

“White is an attitude.”

“You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.”

“One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.”