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- In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
- 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…
- I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a…
- We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose…
- 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 what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.…
- ...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,…
- I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find…
- If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty.…
- "The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility…
- 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…
- We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that…
- A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and…
- 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…
- Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and…
- We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If…
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