I'd Like To Die With

One Is Called To Live Nonviolently, Even If The Change One Works For Seems Impossible. It May Or May Not Be Possible To Turn The Us Around Through Nonviolent Revolution. But One Thing Favors Such An Attempt: The Total Inability Of Violence To Change Anything For The Better

Most Americans Would Agree That Plowshares Is A Theatre Of The Absurd.

For My Part, I Believe That The Vain, Glorious And The Violent Will Not Inherit The Earth. . . . In Pursuance Of That Faith My Friends And I Take The Hands Of The Dying In Our Hands. And Some Of Us Travel To The Pentagon, And Others Live In The Bowery And Serve There, And Others Speak Unpopularly And Plainly Of The Fate Of The Unborn And Of Convicted Criminals. It Is All One.

I Don't Know A More Irreligious Attitude, One More Utterly Bankrupt Of Any Human Content, Than One Which Permits Childred To Be Destroyed.

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top.