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1907–1992 United States
Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", before being deported to Guatemala in 1950.
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Strange things are happening in this land, and only when the truth is widely known, can we put a stop to them.
Address to California CIO (1949)
Fear that slowly brews into terror as the Smith Act blankets the land, covering under its legal cloak, persecutions unheard of in America.
Address to California CIO (1949)
Foreign intrigue plays too big a part in the affairs of Latin America. In most cases the people do not have a chance.
Address to California CIO (1949)
The words of the great American socialist, Debs, comes to my mind: “THE COURT OF FINAL RESORT IS THE PEOPLE, AND THAT COURT WILL BE HEARD FROM IN DUE TIME . . .”
Address to California CIO (1949)
How poor is the memory of those right wing leaders that are blind to reason — who refuse to see that the interests of labor and the people are one
Address to California CIO (1949)
the golden carrot that dangles, from the hands of reaction, covers a vicious rattlesnake; for no scab, stoolpigeon or renegade has ever been known to serve the interests of the people.
Address to California CIO (1949)
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