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.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

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

There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.

If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.