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

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.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.