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    Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Mother Jones stood up and fought for workers’ rights for mere children, marching with some all the way to the president to talk to him. Cesar Chavez was a well-known immigrant workers’ rights activist who had lived through the conditions he was trying to prevent. Emma Watson is a young feminist who is adamant about her cause and speaks out to the world. These chosen individuals may have

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    Fighting for human rights is one of the hardest and most important things one can fight for. Individuals like Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and Jesse Williams have fought or for human rights. Gandhi fought for Independence, Chavez fought for workers’ rights, and Williams fought for racial justice. These three individuals helped to enact change by protesting for independence, workers’ rights, and racial justice even through adversity, and bringing others to see the problems within society. Mahatma

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    themselves. Cesar Chavez helped migrant farmers with their unsafe work conditions and lack of workers’ rights. Mother Jones marched for childrens’ rights and to create child labor laws. Van Jones is fighting for human rights currently. These people all did amazing things, and all fought for a singular purpose. Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, and Van Jones all fought to enact change by making people notice their cause and by having the perseverance to keep fighting for others to have better lives. Cesar Chavez

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    Cesar Chavez Essay

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    the ways of Gandhi and Martin Luther King that “violence can only hurt us and our cause” (Cesar Chavez); a quiet, devoted, small catholic man who had nothing just like those he help fight for; “one of America's most influential labor leaders of the late twentieth century” (Griswold del Castillo); and one “who became the most important Mexican-American leader in the history of the United States” (Ender). Cesar Chavez; an American farm worker, who would soon become the labor leader that led to numerous

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    church's involvement. Chavez explains his purpose thoroughly to the audience, uses pathos and has an effective tone to allow him to build his organization. Therefore, Cesar Chavez wanted the church to support his organization, therefore his intended audience for his speech was his local church and the Mexican-American Community. Cesar went through a spiritual fasting, in which he did not eat due to the hazardous chemicals in field fruit. Chavez was a Catholic and used his morals for a nonviolent protest

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    that comes to your mind is an athlete, an astronaut, or even an owner of a company. But I’ll bet money you don’t think of a man by the name of Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez is undeniably courageous because he showed integrity and did the right thing, he also showed perseverance towards his goal, and he was excellent and had a lot of success. One way Cesar Chavez showed courage by having a lot of integrity. When his father was hurt he couldn’t be on the fields, so Chavez quit school and started working

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    Farm Workers History

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    National Farm Workers Association, and later renamed to United Farm Workers (UFW), the foundation was co-founded by Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez in 1962. The United Farm Workers organization was basically a group of workers who stood together for their rights. The goal of the union was to augment the hardships and substandard working conditions of farm workers. Cesar would spend years organizing his fellow workers to fight for better pay and treatment from farm owners (Valle). One of the movement’s

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    Cesar Chavez rough draft By: Reginald Lancaster Moore Cesar chavez was Born in Yuma, Arizona, to immigrant parents in 1927.Cesar Chavez moved to California with his family in 1939. For the next ten years they moved up and down the state working in the fields. During this period Chavez encountered the conditions that he would dedicate his life to changing farming camps, corrupt labor contractors, low wages for backbreaking work, racism in the farming work. His introduction to

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    Hispanic Farm Workers Unite During his address at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on November 9, 1984 Cesar Chavez sought to gain support for the United Farm Workers union by using rhetorical strategies to convey his message that farm workers need to stop allowing other people to treat them like inhuman farming implements to be disposed of whenever the owner feels they’ve become unprofitable. Chavez's speech starts with a description of a tragedy that highlights the mistreatment of migrants and

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    Cesar Chavez is a well known, important, labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of the National Farm Workers Association. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma Arizona. At a young age Chavez learned about the injustices and maltreatment of Mexicans at the hands of Anglo citizens. At the age of 10 Chavez and his family lost their home and store in 1937 forcing them to travel to California to become farm workers. At the time farm workers had to travel from farm to farm for whatever

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