| Last additions - MARCH TO SACRAMENTO - COLOR |
"We are poor, we are humble, and our only choice is to strike in those ranches where we are not treated with the respect we deserve as working men, where our rights as free and sovereign men are not recognized."Feb 20, 2006
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"Irresponsible legislators saw the obvious effects of an unjust system, starvation wages, contractors, day hauls, forced migration, sickness, illiteracy, camps and sub-human living conditions, and acted as if they were irremediable."Sep 12, 2005
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"Our wages and working conditions have been determined from above, because irresponsible legislators who could have helped us, have supported the rancher's argument that the plight of the farmworker was a 'special case'."Sep 12, 2005
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"We must use the only strength that we have, the force of our numbers. The ranchers are few, we are many. United we shall stand."Sep 12, 2005
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"At the head of the Pilgrimage we carry La Virgen de la Guadalupe because she is ours, all ours, Patroness of the Mexican people."Sep 12, 2005
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"We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the 'Law of the Land'."Sep 12, 2005
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"We say in the words of Pope Leo, 'It is neither just nor human to oppress men with excessive work to the point where their minds become enfeebled and their bodies worn out'."Sep 12, 2005
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"From this movement shall spring leaders who shall understand us, lead us, be faithful to us."Sep 12, 2005
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"We do not want the paternalism of the rancher; we do not want charity at the price of our dignity."Sep 12, 2005
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"The time has come for the liberation of the poor farmworker."Sep 12, 2005
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"History is on our side. May the strike go on! Viva La Causa! Viva La Huelga!"Sep 12, 2005
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"Seeking social justice in farm labor with reforms we believe necessary for their well-being as workers."Sep 12, 2005
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