Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

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

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

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

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.

I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.