Cesar Chavez by abaddon

Cesar Chavez

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 17:24:28 UTC

March 31st, 1927-April 23rd, 1993

“The end of all education should surely be service to others.”

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 17:33:23 UTC

-Cesar Chavez

Cesar speaks about how the solution to every problem will not always be making laws (4 minutes)

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 17:42:16 UTC

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:03:06 UTC

Cesar never made more than $5,000 a year and yet 50,000 people showed up to pay respects at the sight of Cesar's last fast. He may have not been wealthy in a traditional sense but he was in every way that mattered to him.

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:16:34 UTC

Cesar grew up in a family of seven on a farm his family owned near Yuma, Arizona. His family was fairly self sufficient due to this, living in relative comfort.

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:28:54 UTC

At only eleven, during the eve of the Great Depression, an agricultural conglomerate got control of their land, evicting them during the worst economic crisis in American history and leading Cesar to drop out of the eighth grade to work in place of his mother and injured father.

"I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don’t know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don’t.”

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:43:45 UTC

-Cesar Chavez

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:50:53 UTC

-Cesar Chavez

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 18:56:10 UTC

Cesar's efforts in social advocacy for migrant farm workers has cemented him and his confidants in history yet what makes him more remarkable is his simplicity. He did not care to overcomplicate the movement with dramatics. He was there to fix the problem he experienced and that was it.

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-28 19:12:46 UTC

After facing countless issues from poor wages to deplorable work conditions at the hands of multiple large migrant camps, Cesar met people who helped him start protests and strikes in support of migrant worker rights and conditions

zcontrerasb — 2024-10-31 16:56:05 UTC

The organization he and his confidants made had, at its peak, 80,000 members