If You Win Non-violently, Then You Have

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.

We Are Convinced That Non-violence Is More Powerful Than Violence. We Are Convinced That Non-violence Supports You If You Have A Just And Moral Cause...if You Use Violence, You Have To Sell Part Of Yourself For That Violence. Then You Are No Longer A Master Of Your Own Struggle.

We Draw Our Strength From The Very Despair In Which We Have Been Forced To Live. We Shall Endure.

There Is A Great Fear Of Our Union - A Fear That I Do Not Fully Understand, But That I Know Is Present...what Is It That Causes Some Men To Act So Hastily And So Cruelly? It Cannot Be That We Are So Powerful. Is It So Much To Ask That The Poorest People Of The Land Have A Measure Of Justice?

"the Life Of The Union Depends Upon More People Getting To Share The Limelight, Because With The Limelight Also Comes Responsibility And With The Responsibility Comes A Little Sharing Of The Load." "there Isn't Enough Money To Organize Poor People. There Never Is Enough Money To Organize Anyone. If You Put It On The Basis Of Money, You're Not Going To Succeed."