People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

There should be no censorship of mail.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.