The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.