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These big growers have a lot of money because we earned all that money for them. Because of our sweat and our labor that we put on the land.

— Jessie Lopez De La Cruz Oral History (1980)

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The people that are rich, that have the money, get more money without doing anything. They do not work at all.

Will the Family Farm Survive? (1975)

At another place, in Kern County, we were sprayed with pesticides. They would come out there with their sprayers and spray us on the picket lines.

Oral History (1980)

Parlier is over eighty-five percent Chicano, yet during that time there were no Chicanos on the school board, on the police force, nowhere. Now it's changed; we fought to get a Chicano mayor and officials.

Oral History (1980)

Out in the fields there were never any restrooms. We had to go eight or ten hours without relief. If there wasn't brush or a little ditch, we were forced to wait until we got home!

Oral History (1980)

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