...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

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

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.