Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.