00:05One of the jobs of legal services lawyers is to challenge illegal laws and to challenge
00:11illegal administrative decisions that adversely affect the poor, to try to bring about some
00:16change for the poor people that really means something.
00:19The year is 1969. Cruz Reynoso heads one of the nation's best anti-poverty programs.
00:29Reynoso is in a tight spot. On one side, his old friend, Cesar Chavez, demands that he support
00:36the movement to unionize farm workers. On the other side, Ronald Reagan, California's popular
00:42governor, attacks him as a liberal activist and threatens to cancel the program's funding.
00:50The legal services of over a million of our nation's poorest citizens and the right to
00:55decent housing, health care, and education hang in the balance.
01:07The son of farm workers, Cruz Reynoso walked a path where few had gone before. He was a
01:17champion of the rural poor, helping them better their lives. He was a trailblazer in his profession,
01:26helping many of humble origins attain positions of respect and power. As he advanced, he often
01:35found himself in the crosshairs of controversy. Yet guided by a strong moral compass, he was
01:41determined to enforce the guarantees of the Constitution for all. Throughout his career as a lawyer,
01:50California Supreme Court justice and counsel on the national stage, Cruz Reynoso never forgot where
01:56he came from or on whose behalf he was fighting. He's as gentle a human being as you can find,
02:03and yet he's as revolutionary a human being as you can find, somebody who really wants to change the world.
02:26He's a thriving woman. He's not a human being as a human being as a human being as a human
02:27being as a sinner.
02:27And he's as a man who just wanted to change the world. He was not a person who had found
02:27that looking forward and
02:28the power of the school is one of his ways as a child that he was having a lot of
02:29success. And he went to a
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