"The people united will never be defeated."

"Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return."

"You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."

"I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along."

"There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people."

"[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people."

"When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen."

"What I do shows people what kind of person I am."

"A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity."

"Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity."

"Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization."

"You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it."

"Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it."

"I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have."

"If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone."

"The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help."

"I think, the people around home are very supportive to us."

"We want to encourage people to talk to one another."

"Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life."

"There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does."

"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work."

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

"I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more."

"If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun."