We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

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.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

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?

These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

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