Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

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

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.