Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

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

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

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.