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

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

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

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.