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I can relate to at the moment.

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And maybe again, I have to personalize that any kind

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of discrimination that stops a man from earning a living.

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And when I see that people and let me

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say something and it's terrible, because I'm sure that 

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it's a human quality, not only particular to the

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Mexican, but there's a kind of a pride.

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Maybe it comes from Machismo, 

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a word that I'm not too much in favor

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of because again it's a kind of chauvinism, but a kind

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of machismo, a kind of a pride of a

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man being able to support his family and so

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forth and the indignities that poverty brings to people.

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This is the thing that I can

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relate most to immediate... the immediate thing

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of people really being allowed to work.

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And when I see these poor families in these barrios

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who know that they're being discriminated against simply because their

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skin is a certain color, because their name is not

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Anglo and that they have to work for $3.20 a

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day whereby the other man can make $9 or $10

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or whatever it is and he knows that he's been

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discriminated against I just don't understand it.

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I certainly feel, having known the indignity of

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hunger, having known the indignity of poverty and

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feeling, as I said before, that you cannot

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have a healthy mind without a healthy body.

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And I know that you cannot have a healthy brain

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on an empty stomach and with a distended belly that

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I think that that's where it's at first.

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I mean, you must feed the people.

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You must see that they have the

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dignity and that they are employed and

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they don't feel this ugly discrimination.

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So from the standpoint of the Commission, I can

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only say that I would do anything in the

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world to help them to be of some use.