If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

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

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.