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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

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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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  When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.

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