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However Important The Struggle Is And However Much Misery And Poverty And Degradation Exist, We Know That It Cannot Be More Important Than One Human Life.

(farm Workers) Are Involved In The Planting And The Cultivation And The Harvesting Of The Greatest Abundance Of Food Known In This Society. They Bring In So Much Food To Feed You And Me And The Whole Country And Enough Food To Export To Other Places. The Ironic Thing And The Tragic Thing Is That After They Make This Tremendous Contribution, They Don't Have Any Money Or Any Food Left For Themselves.

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.

This Is The Beginning Of A Social Movement In Fact And Not In Pronouncements. We Seek Our Basic, God - Given Rights As Human Beings...we Shall Do It Without Violence Because It Is Our Destiny. To The Growers And To All Who Oppose Us, We Say The Words Of Benito Juarez: `respect For Another's Right Is The Meaning Of Peace.'

A Symbol Is An Important Thing. That Is Why We Chose An Aztec Eagle. It Gives Pride...when People See It They Know It Means Dignity.