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LULAC Code,
Philosophy & Aims and Purposes
LULAC Code
Philosophy
Aims and Purposes
LULAC
Code
Respect your Citizenship and preserve it; honor your country, maintain
its tradition in the spirit of its citizens and embody yourself into its
culture and civilization.
Be proud of your origin and maintain it immaculate, respect your glorious
past and help to defend the rights of all the people.
Learn how to discharge your duties before you learn how to assert your
rights; educate and make yourself worthy, and stand high in the light of
your own deed; you must always be loyal and courageous.
Filled with optimism, make yourself sociable, upright, judicious, and
above all things be sober and collected in your habits, cautious in your
actions and sparing in your speech.
Believe in God, love Humanity and rely upon the framework of human progress,
slow and sound, unequivocal and firm.
Always be honorable and high-minded; learn how to be self-reliant upon
your qualifications and resources.
In war serve your country, in peace your convictions; discern, investigate,
meditate, think, study, and at all times be honest and generous. Let your
firmest purpose be that of helping to see that each new generation shall
be of a youth more efficient and capable and in this let your own children
be included.
Philosophy
We believe in the democratic principle of individual political and religious
freedom, the right of equality of social and economic opportunity, and in
the cooperative endeavor toward the development of an American Society wherein
the cultural resources, integrity and dignity of every individual and group
constitute basic assets of the American way of Life.
We believe that as American Citizens we must assume our duties and responsibilities
and assert our rights and privileges in pursuit of a fuller and richer civilization
for our country.
We believe that
education is the foundation for the cultural
growth and development of this nation and that
we are obligated to promote, protect and assure
the right of our people to an education that is
in accordance with the best American educational
principles and standards; that we must deplore
any infringement of this right wherever it may
occur and regardless of whom it may affect.
We accept that
it is not only the privilege but the obligation
of every member of this organization to uphold
and defend the rights and duties vested in every
American Citizen by the letter and spirit of the
Law of the Land.
Aims
and Purposes
Based on the spirit of the philosophy of our League and having unequivocal
faith in its righteousness, we propose:
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To use all constitutional means at our disposal to implement with
social action the principles set forth in our philosophy;
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To foster the learning and fluent use of the English language that
we may thereby equip ourselves and our families for the fullest enjoyment
of our rights and privileges and the efficient discharge of our duties and
responsibilities to our country, but at the same time, exerting equal effort
to foster the fluent mastery of the Spanish language which is part of our
heritage and a means of extending the cultural horizons of our nation;
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To constitute the League into a service organization to actively promote
and foster suitable measures for the attainment of the highest of our American
society, and to establish cooperative relations with civic and governmental
institutions and agencies in the field of public service;
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To exert our united efforts to uphold the rights guaranteed to every
individual by our state and national laws and to assure justice and equal
treatment under these laws;
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To combat with every means at our command all un- American tendencies
and actions that deprive American citizens of their rights in educational
institutions, in economic pursuits and in social, civic and political activities;
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To maintain the League free of all involvement in partisan politics
as an organization; however, we shall oppose any infringement upon the constitutional
political rights of an individual to vote and/or be voted upon at local,
state and national levels;
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To oppose any violent demonstrations or other acts that defy constituted
law and authority, desecrate the symbols of our nation, and threaten the
physical and spiritual welfare of individuals or institutions;
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To promote and encourage the education of youth and adults through
scholarships, the constant vigilance of administrative and instructional
practices in schools which deprive persons of educational opportunities,
the sponsorship of classes in citizenship and other areas, and through the
dissemination of information about available training opportunities;
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To make use of every medium of communication at our disposal and to
exert our combined efforts to promulgate and propagate the principles of
the League, and augment its influence and numerical growth;
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To under gird the efforts postulated in our Aims and Purposes with
the overall objective of creating among our fellow citizens, through example
and a mutual exchange of concepts, an understanding and recognition of and
an appreciation for the dignity, worth and potential of the individual.
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