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“As long as we have a poor country bordering California,…” quote by Cesar Chavez — Download Open image

“As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.”

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We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…

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If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we…

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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

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it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the…

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The people who give you their food give you their heart.

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The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors…

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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are…

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There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there…

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Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

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Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

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California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

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Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

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Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over…

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These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

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The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

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While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

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I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back…

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