The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.93 (898 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1570754586 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-07-05 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A moving story of why and how Cesar Chavez struggled for justice for farm workers and left an indelible mark on the struggle for human dignity.
A companero to us all Kerry Walters Frederick John Dalton is to be congratulated for this beautifully written and spiritually inspiring study of the moral vision that underlay Cesar Chavez's activism. Following in the tradition of Jesus, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, and the Berrigan brothers, Chavez's orientation was biblical to the core. He preached and practiced nonviolent resistance, personal and group sacrifice, the transformati. USEFUL INTRODUCTION TO THE CHAVEZ LEGACY AND CATHOLIC SPIRITUALITY SO NECESSARY FOR OUR NATION NOW Cesar Chavez has been likened to the American Gandhi, using the powerful tools of nonviolence, including fasting with prayer and mass mobilizations, to affect political change, labor rights and human rights for his people, our people, for Americans now again forgotten, rejected, despised, blockaded, dispossessed. We need him now. We need him again. Read this book. Be him now.Published by the excellent Catholic pri. AS WE SEE OURSELVES LOSE OUR MORAL RUDDER, READ THIS BOOK CAREFULLY AND ACT MORALLY FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, EQUITY, TRUTH Love Thy Enemy Cesar Chavez has been likened to the American Gandhi, using the powerful tools of nonviolence, including fasting with prayer and mass mobilizations, to affect political change, labor rights and human rights for his people, our people, for Americans now again forgotten, rejected, despised, blockaded, dispossessed. We need him now. We need him again. Read this book. Be him now.Published by the excellent Catholic pri