Self Dedication Is A Spiritual Experience.

Look At The John Birch Society. Look At Hitler. The Reactionaries Are Always Better Organizers.

Never, Never Is It Possible To Reach Someone If You Become Angry Or Bitter Only Love And Gentleness Can Do It. Maybe Not This Time But Maybe The Next Or The Hundredth Time.

From The Depth Of Need And Despair, People Can Work Together, Can Organize Themselves To Solve Their Own Problems And Fill Their Own Needs With Dignity And Strength.

Until The Chance For Political Participation Is There, We Who Are Poor Will Continue To Attack The Soft Part Of The American System - Its Economic Structure. We Will Build Power Through Boycotts, Strikes, New Union - Whatever Techniques We Can Develop. These Attacks On The Status Quo Will Come, Not Because We Hate, But Because We Know America Can Construct A Humane Society For All Its Citizens - And That If It Does Not, There Will Chaos.

Non-violence Is Very Weak In The Theoretical Sense; It Cannot Defend Itself. But It Is Most Powerful In The Action Situation Where People Are Using Non-violence Because They Want Desperately To Bring About Some Change. Non-violence In Action Is A Very Potent Force And It Can't Be Stopped. The People Who Are Struggling Have The Complete Say-so. No Man-made Law, No Human Ruler, No Army Can Destroy This. There Is No Way It Can Be Destroyed... And So, If We Have The Capacity To Endure, If We Have The Patience, Things Will Change.