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

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

The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)

There have been incidents of violence against the union, many of them, and it has taken all that Cesar can do and the rest of the people can do to keep workers nonviolent.

The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)

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