If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy..

Together, all things are possible.

We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing..

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment..

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character..

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life..

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid….

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 fro….

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human ….

When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up….

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation..

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause..

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

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

What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The cr….

I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle ….

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it..

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature..

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we ….

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings ….

...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression a….