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1975-04-20 Keynote Address: Chicanos and Education - Salvador Ramirez Page 5

TODAY, THESE PRINCIPLES WHICH PRESERVE, TRANSMIT AND ENRICH OUR INHERITANCE…..AS IT UNDERGOES EVOLUTION….DUE TO HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES HAVE BEEN DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT AZTLAN BY THE GUIDING SPIRIT OF EL MOVIMIENTO CHICANO. 
THIS POWERFUL, HEREDITARY SPIRIT OF CHICANISMO HAS INTERVENED WITH PRECONCEIVED DESIGNS OF OPPRESSIVE AND EXPLOITATIVE STIMULI AND RESPONSE…..
IT HAS STIPPED MANY CARNALES Y CARNALAS FROM AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO CONDITIONING STIMULI WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF EVALUATIVE THOUGHT.
INDEED, TO THINK IS TO CHALLENGE THE SOCIAL ORDER…..AND CONTINUOUS PROCESSES OF THOUGHT AND LEARNING ASSURES AND INSURES CHALLENGES. TO CHALLENGE THE SOCIAL ORDER IS TO EMBARRASS THE ESTABLISHMENT. TO QUESTION AND CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO IS TO BE MEN AND WOMEN OF VISIONS AND PURPOSES AND REVISIONS. 
ROBERTO….THIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT OF CHICANISMO…..OF CARNALISMO…..BIND US TOGETHER REGARDLESS OF DISTANCE…..AND TOGETHER WE SHALL CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR OUR HEREDITARY INHERITANCE.
WE MUST LABORIOUSLY STRUGGLE FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, HEALTH, WELFARE, AND EDUCATION, ETC…….
WE SHOULD EXPLORE AND EXHAUST ALL LEGAL AVENUES…..THIS STRUGGLE MUST, GO ON AND ON…..UNTIL THE TEARS IN OUR ELDERS’ EYES ARE NO LONGER TEARS OF TRISTESA BECAUSE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARBITRARILY ADJUSTED AND/OR ACCOMODATED TO

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TODAY, THESE PRINCIPLES WHICH PRESERVE, TRANSMIT AND ENRICH OUR INHERITANCE…..AS IT UNDERGOES EVOLUTION….DUE TO HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES HAVE BEEN DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT AZTLAN BY THE GUIDING SPIRIT OF EL MOVIMIENTO CHICANO. THIS POWERFUL, HEREDITARY SPIRIT OF CHICANISMO HAS INTERVENED WITH PRECONCEIVED DESIGNS OF OPPRESSIVE AND EXPLOITATIVE STIMULI AND RESPONSE….. IT HAS STIPPED MANY CARNALES Y CARNALAS FROM AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO CONDITIONING STIMULI WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF EVALUATIVE THOUGHT. INDEED, TO THINK IS TO CHALLENGE THE SOCIAL ORDER…..AND CONTINUOUS PROCESSES OF THOUGHT AND LEARNING ASSURES AND INSURES CHALLENGES. TO CHALLENGE THE SOCIAL ORDER IS TO EMBARRASS THE ESTABLISHMENT. TO QUESTION AND CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO IS TO BE MEN AND WOMEN OF VISIONS AND PURPOSES AND REVISIONS. ROBERTO….THIS WONDERFUL SPIRIT OF CHICANISMO…..OF CARNALISMO…..BIND US TOGETHER REGARDLESS OF DISTANCE…..AND TOGETHER WE SHALL CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR OUR HEREDITARY INHERITANCE. WE MUST LABORIOUSLY STRUGGLE FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, HEALTH, WELFARE, AND EDUCATION, ETC……. WE SHOULD EXPLORE AND EXHAUST ALL LEGAL AVENUES…..THIS STRUGGLE MUST, GO ON AND ON…..UNTIL THE TEARS IN OUR ELDERS’ EYES ARE NO LONGER TEARS OF TRISTESA BECAUSE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARBITRARILY ADJUSTED AND/OR ACCOMODATED TO