What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

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

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.