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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.