I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

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

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.