César Chávez Quotes

¡Sí se puede!

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost — and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

[http://clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/ "Si Se Puede! Cesar E. Chavez and His Legacy" at UCLA]

César Chávez (pronounced "CHA-vez") died long after the height of the farmworker cause, like the entire Chicano movement, had been forced to spend much energy defending its small gains of the 1960s.

[http://www.medaloffreedom.com/CesarChavez.htm Presidential Medal of Freedom]