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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."216 views
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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."216 views
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"We shall strike. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed."213 views
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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."203 views
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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'."197 views
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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."195 views
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EVERY NIGHT OF THE MARCH, A FARMWORKER RALLY - SPEECHES, MUSIC, EL TEATRO CAMPESINO186 views
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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."178 views
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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."174 views
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"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."174 views
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"The time has come for the liberation of the poor farmworker."173 views
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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."171 views
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