A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

You have to keep moving forward

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

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

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

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