We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

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

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

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?

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.