There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

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.

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.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

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

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.