We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Talk is cheap..It is the way we organize and use our lives every day that tell what we believe in.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him - the people who give you their food give you their heart.

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

If you want to remember me, organize!