If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.