MARCH TO SACRAMENTO - COLOR
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"We are conscious of the historical significance of our pilgrimage."
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"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."
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"The ranchers have imposed hunger on us, and now we hunger for justice."
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"In the words of Pope Leo XIII, 'Everyone's first duty is to protect the workers from greed of speculators who use human beings as instruments to provide themselves with money."
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"The majority of the people on our pilgrimage are of Mexican descent, but the triumph of our race depends on a national association of all farmworkers."
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"Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations."
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"To the ranchers, and to all those who oppose us, we say, in the words of Benito Juarez, 'El respeto al derecho es la paz'."
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"We will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been."
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"Our pilgrimage is the match that will light our cause for all farmworkers to see what is happening here, so that they may do as we have done."
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HUNDREDS OF FARMWORKERS ATTENDED THE NIGHT RALLIES AFTER EACH DAY'S MARCH
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FARMWORKER SUPPORTERS FROM THE CITIES CARRIED HUELGA FLAGS IN THE MARCH TO SACRAMENTO
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A THOUSAND FARMWORKERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS CROWD INTO THE TOWN GYM FOR THE NIGHT RALLY
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