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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.

Organizing Is An Educational Process. The Best Educational Process In The Union Is The Picket Line And The Boycott. You Learn About Life.

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.

It's Amazing How People Can Get So Excited About A Rocket To The Moon And Not Give A Damn About Smog, Oil Leaks, The Devastation Of The Environment With Pesticides, Hunger, Disease. When The Poor Share Some Of The Power That The Affluent Now Monopolize, We Will Give A Damn.

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.