The Fight Is Never About Grapes Or

If You Win Non-violently, Then You Have A Double Victory, You Have Not Only Won Your Fight, But You Remain Free.

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 Surface.

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 So, And Twenty Guys Tell You To Go To Hell, Or That They Haven't Got Time. But Maybe At The Fortieth Or Sixtieth House You Find The One Guy Who Is All You Need. You're Not Going To Organize Everything; You're Just Going To Get It Started.

I Remember With Strong Feelings The Families Who Joined Our Movement And Paid Dues Long Before There Was Any Hope Of Winning Contracts. Sometimes, Fathers And Mothers Would Take Money Out Of Their Meager Food Budgets Just Because They Believed That Farm Workers Could And Must Build Their Own Union. I Remember Thinking Then That With Spirit Like That... We Had To Win. No Force On Earth Could Stop Us.

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.