In Non-violence The Cause Has To Be

However Important The Struggle Is And However Much Misery And Poverty And Degradation Exist, We Know That It Cannot Be More Important Than One Human Life.

In This World It Is Possible To Achieve Great Material Wealth, To Live An Opulent Life. But A Life Built Upon Those Things Alone Leaves A Shallow Legacy. In The End, We Will Be Judged By Other Standards.

If They Had $2.00 For Food, They Had To Give $1.00 To The Union. Otherwise, They Would Never Get Out Of The Trap Of Poverty. They Would Never Have A Union Because They Couldn't Afford To Sacrifice A Little Bit More On Top Of Their Misery.

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.

Nonviolence Is Really Tough. You Don't Practice Nonviolence At Conferences; You Practice It On Picket-lines.