I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the a….

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline..

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardshi….

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next….

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

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure..

Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there….

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart..

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines..

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….

I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fa….

...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violen….

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, l….

it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worke….

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any ….

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something ….

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work..

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 st….

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 fami….

There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart..

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..