Across The San Joaquin Valley, Across California,

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.

Self Dedication Is A Spiritual Experience.

A Movement With Some Lasting Organization Is A Lot Less Dramatic Than A Movement With A Lot Of Demonstrations And A Lot Of Marching And So Forth. The More Dramatic Organization Does Catch Attention Quicker. Over The Long Haul, However, It's A Lot More Difficult To Keep Together Because You're Not Building Solid...a Lasting Organization Is One In Which People Will Continue To Build, Develop And Move When You Are Not There.

Once Social Change Begins, It Cannot Be Reversed.

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.