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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."Feb 20, 2006
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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."Feb 20, 2006
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"The farmworker has been abandoned to his own fate - without representation, without power - subject to the mercy and caprice of the rancher."Feb 20, 2006
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"We want to be equal with all the working men in the nation."Feb 20, 2006
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"We are conscious of the historical significance of our pilgrimage."Feb 20, 2006
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"We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause."Feb 20, 2006
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"We know that the poverty of the Mexican or Filipino worker in California is the same as that of all farmworkers in the country."Feb 20, 2006
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"Our men and women have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men."Feb 20, 2006
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"To those who oppose us, be they ranchers, police, politicians, or speculators, we say that we are going to continue fighting until we die, or we win."Feb 20, 2006
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"We want a just wage, better working conditions, a decent future for our children."Feb 20, 2006
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"We know all of these towns of Delano, Madera, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento, because along this very same road, in this very same valley, the Mexican race has sacrificed itself for the last hundred years."Feb 20, 2006
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The penance we accept symbolizes the suffering we shall have in order to bring justice to these same towns, to this same valley."Feb 20, 2006
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