When You Sacrifice, You Force

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 For Justice. To Be A Man Is To Suffer For Others. God Help Us To Be Men!

From The Depth Of Need And Despair, People Can Work Together, Can Organize Themselves To Solve Their Own Problems And Fill Their Own Needs With Dignity And Strength.

The Fight Is Never About Grapes Or Lettuce. It Is Always About People.

I've Always Maintained That It Isn't The Form That's Going To Make The Difference. It Isn't The Rule Or The Procedure Or The Ideology, But It's Human Beings That Will Make It.

There Are Vivid Memories From My Childhood-what We Had To Go Through Because Of Low Wages And The Conditions, Basically Because There Was No Union. I Suppose If I Wanted To Be Fair I Could Say That I'm Trying To Settle A Personal Score. I Could Dramatize It By Saying That I Want To Bring Social Justice To Farm Workers. But The Truth Is That I Went Through A Lot Of Hell, And A Lot Of People Did. If We Can Even The Score A Little For The Workers Then We Are Doing Something. Besides, I Don't Know Any Other Work I Like To Do Better Than This. I Really Don't.