One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

You can't bank on the outcome.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.