Send Forth A Tiny Ripple Of Hope.

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 Natural State Of A Human Being Is Dignity.

Too Often We Honor Swagger And Bluster And The Wielders Of Force; Too Often We Excuse Those Who Are Willing To Build Their Own Lives On The Shattered Dreams Of Others.

What Has Violence Ever Accomplished? What Has It Ever Created? No Martyr's Cause Has Ever Been Stilled By An Assassin's Bullet...

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