You Are Never Strong Enough That You

Once Social Change Begins, It Cannot Be Reversed.

Until The Chance For Political Participation Is There, We Who Are Poor Will Continue To Attack The Soft Part Of The American System - Its Economic Structure. We Will Build Power Through Boycotts, Strikes, New Union - Whatever Techniques We Can Develop. These Attacks On The Status Quo Will Come, Not Because We Hate, But Because We Know America Can Construct A Humane Society For All Its Citizens - And That If It Does Not, There Will Chaos.

There Is No Such Thing As Defeat In Non-violence.

When Workers Fall Back On Violence, They Are Lost. Oh, They Might Win Some Of Their Demands And Might End A Strike A Little Earlier, But They Give Up Their Imagination, Their Creativity, Their Will To Work Hard And To Suffer For What They Believe Is Right.

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.