" He concluded that if one persisted in presenting one's message, the audience would respond...In 1962 the National Farm Workers Association was founded in Fresno, California, with Chavez as president. From its beginning, his labor union, later named the United Farm Workers, was closely identified with the civil rights movement and its techniques of aggressive nonviolence. (Hammerback and Jensen 55)
Chavez learned through his own experiences and through the example of historically great and influential teachers that the best way to change those things that need to be changed is to first understand them through listening and then act on them through what the above author titled "aggressive nonviolence." Within his many speeches are example of the tactics he used and the strength which he quietly employed to make social...
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