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 do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and de…

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirat…

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

Death to Wage Slavery!

It is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of tears well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has ben…