César Chávez, labor leader and civil rights activist

“All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.” (from a Nov. 9, 1984 speech)

March 31, 1927-April 23, 1993