The Fight Is Never About Grapes Or

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.

Money Is Not Going To Organize The Disadvantaged, The Powerless, Or The Poor. We Need Other Weapons. That's Why The War On Poverty Is Such A Miserable Failure. You Put Out A Big Pot Of Money And All You Do Is Fight Over It. Then You Run Out Of Money And You Run Out Of Troops.

Nonviolence Is Really Tough. You Don't Practice Nonviolence At Conferences; You Practice It On Picket-lines.

From The Depth Of Need And Despair, People Can Work Together, Can Organize Themselves To Solve Their Own Problems And Fill Their Own Needs With Dignity And Strength.

We Have Suffered Unnumbered Ills And Crimes In The Name Of The Law Of The Land. Our Men, Women, And Children Have Suffered Not Only The Basic Brutality Of Stoop Labor, And The Most Obvious Injustices Of The System; They Have Also Suffered The Desperation Of Knowing That The System Caters To The Greed Of Callous Men And Not To Our Needs. Now We Will Suffer For The Purpose Of Ending The Poverty, The Misery, And The Injustice, With The Hope That Our Children Will Not Be Exploited As We Have Been. They Have Imposed Hungers On Us, And Now We Hunger For Justice.