Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.