Happy birthday to one of my heroes, Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American civil rights activist and labor leader. He was one of those OTHER, leftwing kinds of Christians, basing his civil rights rallies upon Christs example of achieving social justice through non-violence. Chavez saw collective bargaining and wage issues through the lens of social justice and religion. One scholar says, “Cesar Chavez is to Mexican Americans what Martin Luther King, Jr., is to African Americans—a leader of iconic stature. To be sure, there was only one Dr. King. It does not diminish the memory of Cesar Chavez to say that, second only to Dr. King, he was one of the most important Christian activists in our time, and one of the premier advocates of social justice through nonviolence.”
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:21:22 +0000
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