from the chapter, A Few Perspectives on Nonviolence
When one must first prove an injury to have the right to one's enemy, one seeks dominance over one party by submitting to an even higher party. The villain dominated, but one did not entirely become a victim until one found an even superior party to serve in judgment over the matter. Now, consciousness lacks the motivation to see how a demotion in one context finds promotion in another. The judge and the people at large are indispensable conduits for "justice," but their importance must be taken for granted - forgotten - if one is to achieve the highest rank imaginable for a victim: Righteousness. Thus, for as long as there are judges to whom a victim might appeal, the villains will be second rate, and there will be room for the third rate to believe their own victimization a badge representing themselves as "first rate." Within such a third rate consciousness, even to have one's own people suffer a horrible massacre becomes the highest victory possible.
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Truth does not begin with an answer on behalf of which all questions must constantly rearrange themselves. Truth begins with fearless questions; answers arrive accordingly.
There is more ape in man to deny the relation than there is more than ape with which to accept it.