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resentful they're likely to do anything. They don't stop to listen and they probably can't listen. They get too emotional, too excited. Anything can happen out there. They get terribly serious. There's nobody to keep order. The state doesn't seem able to do anything.”

There had been a number of episodes of some state police body making raids on these camps of migrant workers, mostly Mexicans. All that did was to scatter them, and the farmers wanted somebody to come back and pull the lettuce, or pick the beans, or do whatever it was that had to be done at that time. There had been some quite bad behavior in the small towns. The police had been quite brutal to them, were frightened of them.

After I got this report, at any rate, I got this brainstorm. I got the feeling that it was the instability of the situation that was so tragic, that these people were too nervous, too overwrought and too highstrung. They couldn't settle down. Nobody knew what was right. There was nothing to argue about. There was nothing to write down and say, “This is our demand.”

I got this brainstorm and said to myself, “What kind of people are they? They're like children and children take comfort in authority. When children are having a tantrum when grandma, or old Aunt Susan, who is a person of authority,