I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.