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| Cesar Chaves |
Cesar Chavez, American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights
activist, is the most honored
Hispanic American, to my knowledge. He
represented the farmer workers, co-founded the National Farm Workers
Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW.) He
carefully followed the lead of Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and included
the Catholic Church.
Cesar Chavez
The Story of
Cesar Chavez
THE BEGINNING
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| Yes, we can! |
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget
about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be
broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their
sakes and for our own.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's
house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you
their heart.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
From the depth of need and despair, people can work
together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill
their own needs with dignity and strength.
