We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

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.

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.

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

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

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.