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- When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use…
- 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…
- Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
- The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
- We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
- 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…
- 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…
- These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and…
- Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
- Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most…
- 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…
- Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its…
- Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't…
- 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…
- 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…
- This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We…
- When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we…
- Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
- Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to…
- The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
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