I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

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

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

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.