Courage Is The Most Important Attribute Of

Yet It Is The One Essential, Vital Quality For Those Who Seek To Change A World Which Yields Most Painfully To Change.

For There Is Another Kind Of Violence, Slower But Just As Deadly, Destructive As The Shot Or The Bomb In The Night. This Is The Violence Of Institutions; Indifference And Inaction And Slow Decay. This Is The Violence That Afflicts The Poor, That Poisons Relations Between Men Because Their Skin Has Different Colors. This Is A Slow Destruction Of A Child By Hunger, And Schools Without Books And Homes Without Heat In The Winter.

The Enlargement Of Liberty For Individual Human Beings Must Be The Supreme Goal And Abiding Practice Of Any Western Society.

Men Without Hope, Resigned To Despair And Oppression, Do Not Make Revolutions. It Is When Expectation Replaces Submission, When Despair Is Touched With The Awareness Of Possibility, That The Forces Of Human Desire And The Passion For Justice Are Unloosed.

Just Because We Cannot See Clearly The End Of The Road, That Is No Reason For Not Setting Out On The Essential Journey. On The Contrary, Great Change Dominates The World, And Unless We Move With Change We Will Become Its Victims.