The goal of our work in the movement, of all of our activism, and our protest was to come to love. Our desire was not a temporary victory. We did not want to throw loose dirt on a shallow grave. We wanted to push and pull and do all we could to permanently end the injustice of legal segregation and racial discrimination, and we defined those problems in broad terms. That is why there was a strong relationship between the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, between the struggles of post-Holocaust Jews, Latino farm workers, the poor, the sick, the disenfranchised, and the disabled. We
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