Quote of the Day: Si Se Puede!
Monday April 10, 2006
"We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice. "
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"Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens...."
"Si Se Puede! " (English translation: "Yes, we can!")
--- Cesar Chavez (1927 - 1993), American-born civil rights leader of migrant farmworkers. Chavez's efforts were supported by Martin Luther King,. Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 by Bill Clinton.------------------------------
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People who do a web search on Cesar Chavez’s views on illegal immigration ware in for a shock: he was against it, and offered his UFW people’s help in working to stem it.