MARCH TO SACRAMENTO - COLOR
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"MARCH TO SACRAMENTO" PHOTO CAPTIONS TAKEN FROM "THE PLAN OF DELANO" WRITTEN BY LUIS VALDEZ - 1966.
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"WE SHALL BE HEARD !!"
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"In this very same valley, the Mexican race has sacrificed itself for the last hundred years."
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"The pilgrimage we make symbolizes the long historical road we have traveled in this valley alone and the long road we have yet to travel."
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"This pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations."
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"We seek the support of all political groups and protection of the government, which is also our government, in our struggle."
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"We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings."
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"We carry the Sacred Cross and the Star of David because we are not sectarian, and because we ask the help and prayers of all religious."
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"We shall unite. We have learned the meaning of unity."
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"For too many years we have been treated like the lowest of the low."
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"We shall strike. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed."
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"Our revolution will not be armed, but we want the existing social order to dissolve; we want a new social order."
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