The People Who Give You Their Food

I Am Convinced That The Truest Act Of Courage, The Strongest Act Of Manliness, Is To Sacrifice Ourselves For Others In A Totally Nonviolent Struggle For Justice. To Be A Man Is To Suffer For Others. God Help Us To Be Men!

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.

The Thing That We Have Going For Us Is That People Are Willing To Sacrifice Themselves.

We'll Organize Workers In This Movement As Long As We're Willing To Sacrifice. The Moment We Stop Sacrificing, We Stop Organizing.

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.