I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

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.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.