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All quotes are from Cesar E. Chavez, unless otherwise stated...
Tavis Smiley Show: History of Cesar E. Chavez
Like the other immigrant groups, the day will come when we win the economic and political rewards which are in keeping with our numbers in society. The day will come when the politicians will do the right thing for our people out of political necessity and not our of charity or idealism.
Once social change begins it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people that are not afraid anymore.
The UFW was the beginning, we attack that historical source of shame and infamy that our people in this country lived with. We attack that injustice not by complaining, not by seeking handouts, not by becoming soldiers in the war on poverty, we organized.
The union survival, its very existence - send out a signal to all hispanics, that we were fighting for our dignity, that we were challenging and overcoming injustice, that we were empowering the least educated among us, the poorest among us,
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