Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

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

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.