Cesar Chavez Quotes
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.
Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993, Founder, United Farm Workers of America, Labor Leader, Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California, January 11, 1991
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Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
"No Greater Love" is the name of a group of relatives and friends of American MIAs and POWs who served in Vietnam.
Saint-Just himself was executed at the age of 27 by the mechanism he had created.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. This famous quotation has been echoed in virtually every language and every country of the world. However, see Ernest Hemingway for a counter view.
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.
