Once Social Change Begins, It Cannot Be

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.

Who Gets The Risks? The Risks Are Given To The Consumer, The Unsuspecting Consumer And The Poor Work Force. And Who Gets The Benefits? The Benefits Are Only For The Corporations, For The Money Makers.

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 Name Of The Game Is To Talk To People. If You Don't Talk To People, You Can't Get Started...you Knock On Twenty Doors Or So, And Twenty Guys Tell You To Go To Hell, Or That They Haven't Got Time. But Maybe At The Fortieth Or Sixtieth House You Find The One Guy Who Is All You Need. You're Not Going To Organize Everything; You're Just Going To Get It Started.

To Make A Great Dream Come True, The First Requirement Is A Great Capacity To Dream; The Second Is Persistence.