My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?
We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It’s a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.
Respecting other people’s rights is peace.
Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action – whether it’s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line – people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.
That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t.
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?
How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?
If we don’t have workers organized into labor unions, we’re in great peril of losing our democracy.