When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.