A DIGTIAL
Journey Box

We were drilled on the [way] of non-violence. Non-violence as a way of life was stressed over and over again in lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. James Lawson the young man who revolutionized Vanderbilt University expressed it well when he told us that violence is at the end of it's road. Violence only begets more violence and hatred. Mississippi has enough of both already.
Our job is to bring love where hatred and fear preside. And where love is our final goal, the means cannot contradict it. 
We who are Christians are called upon to pray for the oppressor, even as he kicks us in the stomach and knock our teeth out. This kind of loving sacrifice will transform Mississippi.
In fact, non-violence is probably the [prime] option for world peace. 
Anyone who could not embrace non-violence as his own personal way of life while in Mississippi was repeatedly urged to go home.
It is a credit to the effectiveness of this training that there were almost no instances of violent retaliation on the part of freedom volunteers.