"The issue is not, 'What must I do in order to secure my salvation?' but rather, 'What does God require of me in response to the needs of others?' It is not, 'How can I be virtuous?' But 'How can I participate in the struggle of the oppressed for a more just world?' Otherwise our nonviolence is premised on self-justifying attempts to establish our own purity in the eyes of God, others, and ourselves, and that is nothing less than a satanic temptation to die with clean hands and a dirty heart."
