A Symbol Is An Important

When We Are Really Honest With Ourselves We Must Admit Our Lives Are All That Really Belong To Us. So It Is How We Use Our Lives That Determines The Kind Of Men We Are.

I'm Not Going To Ask For Anything Unless The Workers Want It. If They Want It, They'll Ask For It.

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.

We Are Confident. We Have Ourselves. We Know How To Sacrifice. We Know How To Work. We Know How To Combat The Forces That Oppose Us. But Even More Than That, We Are True Believers In The Whole Idea Of Justice. Justice Is So Much On Our Side, That That Is Going To See Us Through.

Until The Chance For Political Participation Is There, We Who Are Poor Will Continue To Attack The Soft Part Of The American System - Its Economic Structure. We Will Build Power Through Boycotts, Strikes, New Union - Whatever Techniques We Can Develop. These Attacks On The Status Quo Will Come, Not Because We Hate, But Because We Know America Can Construct A Humane Society For All Its Citizens - And That If It Does Not, There Will Chaos.