Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

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

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is truly nourishing. Such sick people should not frighten or discourage us. They should be prayed for along with the sick people who are in the hospital. "The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature."

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.