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The workers are on the rise. There will be strikes all over the state and throughout the country because Delano has shown what can be done, and the workers know now they are no longer alone.

— Dolores Huerta

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La Cucaracha speaks for the disenfranchised with humor and a cutting voice

It is no accident that farm workers have an average life span of forty-nine years of age.

The CSO nationally has taken the position of being against the further importation of labor from other countries.

Testimony on Farm Workers (1960)

The social and economic revolution of the farm workers is well under way and will not be stopped until they receive equality.

The health care of farmworkers is almost nonexistent, and the rate of tuberculosis is 200 percent above the national average.

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