This extensive collection of Chavez's speeches and writings chronicles his progression and development as a leader, and includes previously unpublished material.

We shall overcome -- On the NFWA -- A penitential procession -- The plan of Delano -- An organizer's tale -- Recapping the mission -- Marcher -- An age of miracles -- Chicanos and the church -- After the fast -- Before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare -- Good Friday letter -- Creative nonviolence -- Before the House of Representatives -- The union and the strike -- Sharing the wealth -- No more cathedrals -- At Harvard -- Jesus's friendship -- An assortment of responses -- Forty acres -- Twenty days in jail -- Nothing has changed -- At Riverside Church -- At Exposition Park -- On money -- Why Delano -- To be a man is to suffer for others -- Do we exist? -- Regaining the strength -- Nan Freeman -- Juan de la Cruz -- In Coachella -- After a bus accident -- Before the automobile workers -- Martin Luther King Jr. I -- Martin Luther King Jr. II -- Rufino Contreras -- What is democracy? -- René López -- Before the 7th UFWA Constitutional Convention -- At the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco -- Wrath of grapes -- At Pacific Lutheran University -- On public schools -- Sal Si Puedes -- Juan Estrada Chavez -- Fred Ross.