Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

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

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

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.

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

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