A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

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