If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.