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

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

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.

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

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.