In this reflective essay for Friends Journal, Newton Garver recounts a powerful 1949 talk by Bayard Rustin at Swarthmore College, where Rustin described his experience on a North Carolina chain gang after the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation. Garver highlights Rustin’s use of disciplined love and nonviolence—even toward a hostile guard—as a profound spiritual victory, ending with Rustin moving the audience by singing the spiritual “Standing in the Need of Prayer.”