If They Had $2.00 For Food, They

"the Life Of The Union Depends Upon More People Getting To Share The Limelight, Because With The Limelight Also Comes Responsibility And With The Responsibility Comes A Little Sharing Of The Load." "there Isn't Enough Money To Organize Poor People. There Never Is Enough Money To Organize Anyone. If You Put It On The Basis Of Money, You're Not Going To Succeed."

Grant Me Courage To Serve Others; For In Service There Is True Life.

It Is Clearly Evident That Our Path Travels Through A Valley Of Teas Well Known To All Farm Workers, Because In All Valleys The Way Of The Farm Worker Has Bene One Of Sacrifice For Generations. Our Sweat And Our Blood Have Fallen On This Land To Make Other Men Rich. This Pilgrimage Is A Witness To The Suffering We Have Seen For Generations.

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.

I Am An Organizer, Not A Union Leader. A Good Organizer Has To Work Hard And Long. There Are No Shortcuts. You Just Keep Talking To People, Working With Them, Sharing, Exchanging And They Come Along.