“Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.”

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

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!

The people united will never be defeated.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.

Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

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 help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That’s what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

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 from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.

Consistency: It’s the jewel worth wearing; It’s the anchor worth weighing; It’s the thread worth weaving; It’s a battle worth winning.

Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, “Lord, this is Your battle.”

Think about it, no one can win a race in which he had given up. You can’t win a battle for which you have surrendered.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.