Last additions - > PAUL FUSCO PHOTOS 1967 1988 |
19 - "This harvest season will mark our fourth full year of strke and even now we continue to plan and prepare for the years to come."Mar 24, 2006
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11 - "I ask the growers to at least sit down with us to discuss the safeguards necessary to keep our historical struggle free of violence."Mar 24, 2006
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Helen Chavez speaks to Ethel Kennedy at the conclusion of Cesar Chavez's "Fast For Life" 1988.Mar 24, 2006
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05 - " We are human beings, no better and no worse than any other cross-section of human society; we are not saints because we are poor, but by the same measure neither are we immoral."Mar 24, 2006
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04 - "The hopes and aspirations of the poor and dispossesed have been raised on our account."Mar 24, 2006
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07 - "The colors of our skins, the lack of formal education, the exclusion from the democratic process - all these burdens have sought to demoralize us, to break our human spirit."Mar 24, 2006
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08 - "God knows that we are not beasts of burden, agricultural implements, or rented slaves; we are men."Mar 24, 2006
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06 - "We are men and women who have suffered and endured much, and not only because of our abject poverty, but because we have been kept poor."Mar 24, 2006
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10 - "We know that our cause is just, that history is a story of social revolution, and the poor shall inherit the land."Mar 24, 2006
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15 - "The Delano strikers have been taught not to lie down and die, nor to feel shame, but to resist with every ounce of human endurance and spirit."Mar 24, 2006
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09 - "If building our union required the deliberate taking of life, either the life of a grower and his child. or the life of farmworker or his child, then I choose not to see our union built."Mar 24, 2006
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Jesse Jackson visits Cesar Chavez at the conclusion of Cesar's "Fast For Life" 1988.Mar 24, 2006
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