We Do Not Need To

There Are Vivid Memories From My Childhood-what We Had To Go Through Because Of Low Wages And The Conditions, Basically Because There Was No Union. I Suppose If I Wanted To Be Fair I Could Say That I'm Trying To Settle A Personal Score. I Could Dramatize It By Saying That I Want To Bring Social Justice To Farm Workers. But The Truth Is That I Went Through A Lot Of Hell, And A Lot Of People Did. If We Can Even The Score A Little For The Workers Then We Are Doing Something. Besides, I Don't Know Any Other Work I Like To Do Better Than This. I Really Don't.

When We Are Really Honest With Ourselves We Must Admit That Our Lives Are All That Really Belong To Us, So It Is How We Use Our Lives That Determines What Kind Of Men We Are. It Is My Deepest Belief That Only By Giving Life Do We Find Life, That The Truest Act Courage, The Strongest Act Of Manliness Is To Sacrifice Ourselves For Others In A Totally Non-violent Struggle For Justice. To Be A Man Is To Suffer For Others, God Help Us To Be Men.

Money Is Not Going To Organize The Disadvantaged, The Powerless, Or The Poor. We Need Other Weapons. That's Why The War On Poverty Is Such A Miserable Failure. You Put Out A Big Pot Of Money And All You Do Is Fight Over It. Then You Run Out Of Money And You Run Out Of Troops.

We Know What Unions Have Done For Other People. We Have Seen It And We Have Studied And We Have Cherished The Idea Of Unionism. We Have Seen The History And Development Of Unions In This Country And We Tell The Growers That We Want Nothing More, But That We Want Our Own Union And We Are Going To Fight For It As Long As It Takes.

People Who Have Lost Their Hunger For Justice Are Not Ultimately Powerful. They Are Like Sick People Who Have Lost Their Appetite For What Is Truly Nourishing. Such Sick People Should Not Frighten Or Discourage Us. They Should Be Prayed For Along With The Sick People Who Are In The Hospital. "the Love For Justice That Is In Us Is Not Only The Best Part Of Our Being But It Is Also The Most True To Our Nature."