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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!

In Non-violence The Cause Has To Be Just And Clear As Well As The Means.

Do Not Romanticize The Poor...we Are All People, Human Beings Subject To The Same Temptations And Faults As All Others. Our Poverty Damages Our Dignity.

It Takes A Lot Of Punishment To Be Able To Do Anything To Change The Social Order.

There Are Vivid Memories From My Childhood-what We Had To Go Through Because Of Low Wages And The Conditions, Basically Because There Was No Union. I Suppose If I Wanted To Be Fair I Could Say That I'm Trying To Settle A Personal Score. I Could Dramatize It By Saying That I Want To Bring Social Justice To Farm Workers. But The Truth Is That I Went Through A Lot Of Hell, And A Lot Of People Did. If We Can Even The Score A Little For The Workers Then We Are Doing Something. Besides, I Don't Know Any Other Work I Like To Do Better Than This. I Really Don't.