Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.