If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

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?

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

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

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.