The fact is that I'll spend three years of time in jail.
The fact is that that's very small.
The fact is that you and I live in the midst of a society
which does much more than send people to jail.
We live in a society that's become synonymous
not simply with sending people to jail
and not simply with starving people all around the world,
not simply with the most devastating tools of destruction
that mankind has ever known,
not simply with the pillaging and rape of an entire landscape.
We live in a society that beyond all those things
has become synonymous with death itself,
which is why myself and many people like me
are going to spend a lot more than simply three years in prison.
Not because we've simply violated law.
There are thousands upon thousands of law violators
and the question is not simply law.
There's been a much more basic principle that's been violated.
Beyond all things, the life of a man is that man.
That beyond all other things,
every man has an indigenous right to live and to exercise the life.
If there's one statement I will leave behind,
it's a very simple statement that I'll close with,
which is that there's no direction to go except forward.
There's no place to run. There's no place to hide.
There's only one way that you and I will get out of it.
There's only one way that you and I will see the things we want to see
and that's to build them.
And that may be a painful process.
That may be a process in which any number of people
expend any amount of energy.
It may be a process where you and I will have to endure
any number of things that don't seem to us to be pleasant.
But it must be done.
It must be done for a very simple reason.
The simple reason that life is sacred.