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I Remember With Strong Feelings The Families Who Joined Our Movement And Paid Dues Long Before There Was Any Hope Of Winning Contracts. Sometimes, Fathers And Mothers Would Take Money Out Of Their Meager Food Budgets Just Because They Believed That Farm Workers Could And Must Build Their Own Union. I Remember Thinking Then That With Spirit Like That... We Had To Win. No Force On Earth Could Stop Us.

Look At The John Birch Society. Look At Hitler. The Reactionaries Are Always Better Organizers.

Until The Chance For Political Participation Is There, We Who Are Poor Will Continue To Attack The Soft Part Of The American System - Its Economic Structure. We Will Build Power Through Boycotts, Strikes, New Union - Whatever Techniques We Can Develop. These Attacks On The Status Quo Will Come, Not Because We Hate, But Because We Know America Can Construct A Humane Society For All Its Citizens - And That If It Does Not, There Will Chaos.

It's Ironic That Those Who Till The Soil, Cultivate And Harvest The Fruits, Vegetables, And Other Foods That Fill Your Tables With Abundance Have Nothing Left For Themselves.

Our Struggle Is Not Easy. Those Who Oppose Our Cause Are Rich And Powerful And They Have Many Allies In High Places. We Are Poor. Our Allies Are Few. But We Have Something The Rich Do Not Own. We Have Our Bodies And Spirits And The Justice Of Our Cause As Our Weapons.