The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

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

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?