Book Review 16: Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers

It's important for Latinos to vote. Only then will things change for us.
If we're full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
I'll sacrifice myself to remind our people that this struggle is about dignity and values. Violence is not the answer.

Having grown up in a family of farm work, Cesar Chavez knew very well about the life of farm-workers, which prepared him well for his further fight for farm-workers. However, what distinguished him was the ideas of ways of fighting. He advocated to fight without violence which turned out to cause hatreds that ultimately could make things complicated and worse. He would even like to risk sacrificing himself to persuade people into non-violence. Thanks to his outstanding ideas, more workers were able to earn what they deserved and the organization he made hopefully kept growing. The famous Great Delano Grape Strike was sponsored by him and proved to be an excellent work in history.

by Eric Braun
illustrated by Harry Roland, Al Milgrom, Steve Erwin, and Charles Barnett Ⅲ
(192 words)