All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.