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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 sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Chavez
Age: 66 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 31
Died: 1993
Died: April 23
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