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

Cesar Chavez

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  When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

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  Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.

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  When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

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