Cesar Chavez Quotes


The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.


Citations

Levy, Jacques E. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. W.W. Norton & Company, 1975.

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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
  • Born: March 31, 1927
  • Died: April 23, 1993
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Labor Leader, Civil Rights Activist

César Estrada Chávez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Ideologically, his world-view combined leftist politics with Roman Catholic social teachings.