There Is A Strong Moralistic Strain In

When I Say I Love Eastland, It Sounds Preposterous A Man Who Brutalizes People. But You Love Him Or You Wouldn't Be Here. You're Going To Mississippi To Create Social Change And You Love Eastland In Your Desire To Create Conditions Which Will Redeem His Children. Loving Your Enemy Is Manifest In Putting Your Arms Not Around The Man But Around The Social Situation, To Take Power From Those Who Misuse It At Which Point They Can Become Human Too.

When An Individual Is Protesting Society's Refusal To Acknowledge His Dignity As A Human Being, His Very Act Of Protest Confers Dignity On Him.

My Activism Did Not Spring From Being Black...the Racial Injustice That Was Present In This Country During My Youth Was A Challenge To My Belief In The Oneness Of The Human Family.

I Am A Quaker. And As Everyone Knows, Quakers, For 300 Years, Have, On Conscientious Ground, Been Against Participating In War. I Was Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison Because I Could Not Religiously And Conscientiously Accept Killing My Fellow Man.

The Organizers And Perpetuators Of Segregation Are As Much The Enemy Of America As Any Foreign Invader.