Cesar Chavez Quotes
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
Chavez, Cesar. "The Mexican-American and the Church." 1968. The Words of César Chávez, edited by Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback, Texas A&M University Press, 2002.
There was a planned boycott of the Olympics protesting three factors: Avery Brundage, the long serving head of the American Olympic Committee was a notorious racist and anti-Semite, Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia had been invited to the Olympics, and there were almost no Black coaches of the American Olympic team while the majority of the athletes were Black. Dr. King met with the organizing athletes. The boycott did not get organized soon enough and did not materialize. However, Carlos and Tommy Smith made the famous raised fist gesture during the Olympic victory ceremony, and the third medal winner Australian Peter Norman wore a button supporting the protest at the ceremony. All 3 athletes faced serious retribution afterwards.
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.
