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 to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

[Farm workers] are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so mu…

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 str…

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.

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings. Because we have suffered - a…

The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.'

Like the other immigrant groups, the day will come when we win the economic and political rewards which are in keeping with our numbers in society. The day wil…