We Must Understand That The Highest Form

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.

Concentration Is Inspiration. You Must Be Completely Overtaken By Your Work And Your Subject. Only Then Do All Your Influences And Experience Come Up To The Surface.

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.

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.

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.