You Cannot Oppress The People

Farm Workers Everywhere Are Angry And Worried That We Cannot Win Without Violence. We Have Proved It Before Through Persistence, Hard Work, Faith And Willingness To Sacrifice. We Can Win And Keep Our Own Self-respect And Build A Great Union That Will Secure The Spirit Of All People If We Do It Through A Re-dedication And Re-commitment To The Struggle For Justice Through Non-violence.

It Is Not Good Enough To Know Why We Are Oppressed And By Whom. We Must Join The Struggle For What Is Right And Just. Jesus Does Not Promise That It Will Be An Easy Way To Live Life And His Own Life Certainly Points In A Hard Direction; But It Does Promise That We Will Be "satisfied" (not Stuffed; But Satisfied). He Promises That By Giving Life We Will Find Life - Full, Meaningful Life As God Meant It.

Preservation Of One's Own Culture Does Not Require Contempt Or Disrespect For Other Cultures.

Jesus' Life And Words Are A Challenge At The Same Time That They Are Good News. They Are A Challenge To Those Of Us Who Are Poor And Oppressed. By His Life He Is Calling Us To Give Ourselves To Others, To Sacrifice For Those Who Suffer, To Share Our Lives With Our Brothers And Sisters Who Are Also Oppressed. He Is Calling Us To "hunger And Thirst After Justice" In The Same Way That We Hunger And Thirst After Food And Water: That Is, By Putting Our Yearning Into Practice.

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.