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[APPLAUSE]

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Mucho ruido siempre.

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And if you want to look at
my first book Fragile Night,

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look for my next one.

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It's going to be a
major motion picture.

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Maybe some of you
will be on the lineup.

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I don't know.

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Who knows?

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We need a lot of brown
faces in that one.

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I'm very happy to represent,
not just my cultura, but also

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the students of Cesar
Chavez High School

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in Phoenix, Arizona.

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I am the Chair of
Council at Cesar Chavez.

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What a great man.

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What a humble man.

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When he walked in
Arizona, I was a kid.

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I was a teenager,
but you know what,

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I marched with his people,
and proud to sit down

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on the sidewalks,
and proud to be spit

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on by the rich and
the famous, who

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thought that the farm
workers were nothing

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and were less than nothing.

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So I wrote a poem to
honor this beautiful man--

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this beautiful man who used
to fast, the spiritual man who

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used to make his station
wagon into a moving chapel

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so he could get into the
fields and gather his gente.

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Did you know that?

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Did you know that Chavez used
to get his station wagon,

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and make it into a chapel,
and go right into the fields

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to gather his people
together because they

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wouldn't let him organize?

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They wouldn't let him
bring the people together

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because you know what,
when people come together,

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there's power, just like
you are right now, mi gente.

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When there's people together,
man, that's when we're strong,

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that's when we're strong, that's
when the heart of Aztlán comes

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out, that's what this nation
is going to see in voices from

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the wall, the heart
of who we are.

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I'm telling you.

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You'll see what
I'm talking about.

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This is called "There
is a Place for You."

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This is in honor of
Cesar Estrada Chavez.

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"There is a place
for you in America,

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Cesar Estrada Chavez, beside
the dusty fields you labored in,

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stooping, sweating, close
to La Raza, your people,

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trapped between
pesticide-infested Earth

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and the blazing sun.

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There is a place for you in
America, Cesar Estrada Chavez,

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marching with La Raza,
your people in boycotts,

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strikes, las huelgas, aching
feet, pounding city streets,

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aching hearts pumping
out the melody of love--

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love to soften the hearts of
those who keep your people

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chained to the earth.

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There is a place
for you in America,

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Cesar Estrada Chavez, where
people chant and shout,

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"Si se puede", el grito de la
libertad, the cry of freedom,

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eyes held steady,
heads uplifted,

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unafraid to dream
that one day, yes,

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one day in America, poverty
will come to an end.

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There is a place for you in
America, Cesar Estrada Chavez,

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in hearts that know the truth.

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We are one family--

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rich, poor, strong, weak, farm
worker, boss, white, brown,

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black, red--

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we share earth,
air, water, wind.

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From humble beginnings,
you have taught us courage.

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You have taught us hope.

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You have taught us
to resist injustice.

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You have taught us to
see God in one another.

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There is a place for you in
America, Cesar Estrada Chavez,

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here, yes, here in the hearts
of La Raza, your people."

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Yeah.

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[WHISTLES]

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[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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Come on.

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Yeah, come on.

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