when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration Service has removed strikebreakers. . . .The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking

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

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves--and be free

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance