Coalicion de Lideres Latinos     CLILA                            

Show me the suffering of the most miserable;

So I will know my people's plight.

Free me to pray for others;

For you are present in every person.

Help me take responsibility for my own life;

So that I can be free at last.

Grant me courage to serve others;

For in service there is true life.

Give me honesty and patience;

So that the Spirit will be alive among us.

Let the Spirit flourish and grow;

So that we will never tire of the struggle.

Let us remember those who have died for justice;

For they have given us life.

Help us love even those who hate us;

So we can change the world

Amen

---peace

“It is not the critic who counts;

Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better;

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short

again and again – because there is not effort

without error and shortcoming.

But who does actually strive to do the deeds;

Who knows the great enthusiasms and

The great devotions;

Who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Who, at the worst, if he fails,

At least falls while daring greatly,

So that his place shall never be with those

cold and timid souls who know neither

Victory, nor Defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

26^th President of The United States of America

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

“When we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of people we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of humanness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be truly alive is to suffer for others. God help us to be truly alive!” (adapted from Cesar Chavez, March 10, 1968)