More from Cesar Chavez

  1. You are here to discuss a matter which is of extreme importance to yourselves, your families and your community, so let's get to the subjec…
  2. We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
  3. We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as fr…
  4. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for gene…
  5. This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings. Because …
  6. We seek the support of all political groups and protection of the government, which is also our government, in our struggle. For too many y…
  7. We seek, and have, the support of the Church in what we do. At the head of the pilgrimage we carry La virgen de la Guadalupe because she is…
  8. We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes …

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