We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.