Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

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

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started.