In Non-violence The Cause Has To Be

We Cannot Seek Achievement For Ourselves And Forget About Progress And Prosperity For Our Community... Our Ambitions Must Be Broad Enough To Include The Aspirations And Needs Of Others, For Their Sakes And For Our Own.

It Takes A Lot Of Punishment To Be Able To Do Anything To Change The Social Order.

...the Workers Aren't Going To Stop Struggling. They're Going To Struggle To Have A Union And They Have The Right To Have It. The Police Repression And The Grower Indifference To The Workers' Demands For Recognition Cannot Go Unheard So We're Going To Keep On Struggling Until We Get That Recognition.

These Observations Tie In Directly With The Whole Question Of Organizing. Why Do We Have Leaders? We Put Some People Out In The Fields And All Of A Sudden They Hit, They Click. Everyone's Happy With Them And They Begin To Move Mountains. With Other People There Are Problems And Heartaches. They Just Don't Go. When We Look And See What's Happening, Almost Invariably The Differences Are Along The Lines Of Willingness To Sacrifice And Work Long Hours.

In The No-nonsense School Of Adversity, Which We Did Not Choose For Ourselves, We Are Learning How To Operate A Labor Union.