Cso Quotes

Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just a duty that I had to do. That goes back to my mother's training. It was not until later that I realized that this was a good organizing tool, although maybe unconsciously, I was already beggining to understand. But I was used by people for a long time until I wised up. It wasn't that they wanted to do it, but that I was not prepared or able to tell them what to do in return. My work was just another war on poverty gimick, which is what happens when people are given everything and don't give anything in return. you can't mold them into any action. Well, one night it just hit me. Once you helped people, most became very loyal. The people who helped us back when we wanted volunteers were the people we had helped. So I began to get a group of those people around me. Once I realized helping people was an organizing technique, I increased that work. I was willing to work all day and night and go to hell and back for people- provided they also did something for the CSO in return. I never felt bad asking for that. It didn't contradict my parents' teachings, because I wasn't asking for something for myself. For a long time we didn't know how to put that work together into an organization. But we learned after a while- we learned how to help people by making them responsible. Today it's the same principle with the Union. And it works. We don't get everybody, but we get enough to get that nucleus. I think solving problems for people is the only way to build solid groups.

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As the Father has loved me,  jso have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 kIf you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as  lI have kept  mmy Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you,  nthat my joy may be in you, and that  oyour joy may be full. 12 p“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 qGreater love has no one than this,  rthat someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are  smy friends  tif you do what I command you. 15 uNo longer do I call you servants, [1] for the servant  wdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for  xall that I have heard from my Father  yI have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but  zI chose you and appointed you that you should go and  abear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that  bwhatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you,  cso that you will love one another.

And so the CSO was built, with Ross and Chavez crisscrossing the state to find people who were ready to fight.

Tens of thousands of people became citizens; half a million voters were added to the rolls. More work remained to be done, of course, but the CSO had largely accomplished what it set out to do: provide Mexican Americans with a political voice.

When Ross sat down, CSO members voted unanimously to accept him as organizer. During his talk, he had informed the group that they would be put to work—“this is your organization, not mine”—and he immediately made good on the promise. He formed a membership committee of five volunteers, each of whom agreed to go out with Ross one night a week to visit neighbors and talk up the CSO.

He also made a point of popping into the office of the local newspaper, introducing the project in the most innocuous way and laying out the many supporters—including the church—that the CSO enjoyed.

By the middle of 1955, the CSO had grown to eleven chapters and could legitimately be called a statewide organization.

While Ross hoped to expand the grassroots CSO, Sanchez sought to pull together a group of experts who could provide advice to Mexican American organizations around the country. Sanchez preferred to keep the struggle in the courtroom and was leery of the CSO’s street-level activism, once referring to the group as “trouble makers.

During a CSO executive board meeting in 1955, Alinsky laid out the matter in stark terms. They had one of two roads to take: continue to grow without worrying about the finances, which would cause the CSO to “destroy itself,” or launch a “consolidation” program of the existing chapters to stabilize the organization.5 Once

At its current rate of growth, Ross wrote Alinsky, the CSO would have active chapters in every sizable Spanish-speaking area in the state within the year.28 Which, as it turned out, would present a whole new set of challenges.

platforms succeed based on participation, not ownership. “You can’t cull out something called a platform from the ecosystem itself,” Alibaba CSO Ming Zeng said.7 Today’s platforms are dominant because users chose them, not because they were able to buy up all available sources of supply.

I think it’s important to be attentive to opportunities that might unexpectedly arise—and be prepared to take them. Practically, this means having broad interests, interacting with people from different professional backgrounds, and building a generalizable skillset that can be applied to different problems. -- Dennis Grishin, Cofounder and CSO Nebula Genomics