Non-violence Exacts A Very High Price From

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 Are All Founded Upon Our Deep Conviction That The Form Of Collective Self-help, Which Is Unionization, Holds Far More Hope For The Farm Worker Than Any Other Single Approach, Whether Public Or Private. This Conviction Is What Brings Spirit, High Hope And Optimism To Everything We Do.

The Picket Line Is The Best Place To Train Organizers. One Day On The Picket Line Is Where A Man Makes His Commitment. The Longer On The Picket Line, The Stronger The Commitment. A Lot Of Workers Think They Make Their Commitment By Walking Off The Job When Nobody Sees Them. But You Get A Guy To Walk Off The Field When His Boss Is Watching And, In Front Of The Other Guys, Throw Down His Tools And March Right To The Picket Line, That Is The Guy Who Makes Our Strike. The Picket Line Is A Beautiful Thing Because It Makes A Man More Human.

There Are Many Reasons For Why A Man Does What De Does. To Be Himself He Must Be Able To Give It All. If A Leader Cannot Give It All He Cannot Expect His People To Give Anything.

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 With Pesticides, Hunger, Disease. When The Poor Share Some Of The Power That The Affluent Now Monopolize, We Will Give A Damn.

Violence Just Hurts Those Who Are Already Hurt...instead Of Exposing The Brutality Of The Oppressor, It Justifies It.