You Cannot Oppress The People Who Are

When A Man Or Woman, Young, Or Old, Takes A Place On The Picket Line For Even A Day Or Two, He Will Never Be The Same Again.

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.

The First Principle Of Non-violent Action Is That Of Non-cooperation With Everything Humiliating.

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.

Across The San Joaquin Valley, Across California, Across The Entire Southwest Of The United States, Wherever There Are Mexican People, Wherever There Are Farm Workers, Our Movement Is Spreading Like Flames Across A Dry Plain.