...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

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

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

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