Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

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.

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Together, all things are possible

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.