Without prayer there is no inward peace.
Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.