We maintain that you cannot really be effective in anything you are doing if you are so loaded with violence that you cannot think rationally about what you have to do. We know that violence works. I'm not going to say it doesn't work. Total violence still works and is working many places. I disagree that it has long-lasting good results. I disagree with that. But violence works only when it's total violence, and non-violence works only when it's total non-violence. And you can't have anything in between.

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and de…

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop…

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resist…

A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves. [sic]

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence - against a government whose only reply is savag…