Cesar Chavez Quotes
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...
Citations
Chavez, Cesar. Quoted in Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice, edited by Lisa A. Kemmerer, University of Illinois Press, 2011, p. 96.
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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.