We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives..

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others..

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot..

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment w….

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the l….

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

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climat….

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in..

The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott ….

We know we cannot defend to be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the n….

Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserabl….

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the hist….

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..

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle ….

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence..

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using n….

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environmen….

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things..

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God..

People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is truly n….

Self dedication is a spiritual experience..