There Is No Such Thing As Defeat

The Picket Line Is The Best Place To Train Organizers. One Day On The Picket Line Is Where A Man Makes His Commitment. The Longer On The Picket Line, The Stronger The Commitment. A Lot Of Workers Think They Make Their Commitment By Walking Off The Job When Nobody Sees Them. But You Get A Guy To Walk Off The Field When His Boss Is Watching And, In Front Of The Other Guys, Throw Down His Tools And March Right To The Picket Line, That Is The Guy Who Makes Our Strike. The Picket Line Is A Beautiful Thing Because It Makes A Man More Human.

Our Conviction Is That Human Life And Limb Are A Very Special Possession Given By God To Man And That No One Has The Right To Take That Away, In Any Cause, However Just...

This Is The Beginning Of A Social Movement In Fact And Not In Pronouncements. We Seek Our Basic, God - Given Rights As Human Beings...we Shall Do It Without Violence Because It Is Our Destiny. To The Growers And To All Who Oppose Us, We Say The Words Of Benito Juarez: `respect For Another's Right Is The Meaning Of Peace.'

Violence Just Hurts Those Who Are Already Hurt...instead Of Exposing The Brutality Of The Oppressor, It Justifies It.

Imagine The National Guard Being Called Against A Group Of Peaceful People. How Far Can We Get; How Disgraceful Can It Become? It's The Most Disgraceful, The Most Wicked Thing I've Seen In All My Years Of Organizing Farm Labor.