If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.