Self Dedication Is A Spiritual Experience.

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.

We Need, In A Special Way, To Work Twice As Hard To Help People Understand That Animals Are Fellow Creatures, That We Must Protect Them And Love Them As We Love Ourselves...

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.

The Road To Social Justice For The Farm Worker Is The Road Of Unionization. Our Cause, Our Strike Against Table Grapes And Our International Boycott Are All Founded Upon Our Deep Conviction That The Form Of Collective Self-help, Which Is Unionization, Holds Far More Hope For The Farm Worker Than Any Other Single Approach, Whether Public Or Private. This Conviction Is What Brings Spirit, High Hope And Optimism To Everything We Do.

I'm Not Going To Ask For Anything Unless The Workers Want It. If They Want It, They'll Ask For It.