How does one inspire thousands if not millions of people? Cesar Chavez hopes to persuade his audience that nonviolence is always the answer Explaining that nonviolent methods are how just and moral causes are demonstrated. Whereas it's violent counterpart often comes with it's own set of strings attached.
Chavez defines a fine line between moral and immoral causes. Explaining that "nonviolence supports you if you a moral and just cause" implying that violence is only for those with false causes. That single statement turns anyone who doesn't believe in nonviolence into the bad guy. Further explaining that violence causes "injuries, deaths, … and total demoralization" which is unattractive to the American population. A violent offensive only
The political climate in the United States has recently been very intense, all beginning with Trump and his negative remarks against the immigrant community. His most famous and derogatory words calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers (Reilly), sparked a huge uproar in the defense of the Mexican people who have chosen to immigrate to the United States. Along his path to the presidency he has time after time belittled Mexicans and their culture. That, however, has not stopped the Mexican band, Calibre 50 from shedding light on an all too real journey and attempting to fortify their fans for a common cause. Almost a year into Trump’s presidency Calibre 50 released the music video for their song, “El Corrido de Juanito.” The music video follows the journey of a man crossing the border to which it then shows him trying to make a life for himself in the United States as a gardener and a chef. The video attempts to show what it is like to illegally
For years the LGBT community has been consistently denied the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, and it wasn’t until last year that same sex marriage became legal throughout the United States. However, they are not the only minorities being discriminated against in the United States. That is why Dolores Huerta, a well-known civil rights activist, points out that people who have experienced oppression should come together to achieve equality. In her keynote speech at the 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality, Dolores Huerta uses ethos, logos, and pathos as an effective way to inspire her audience to make a change in society.
Like many activist Cesar Chavez set many campaigns to get some type of social change, this was easy for him
“All machines have their friction―and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil… But when the friction comes to have its machine… I say, let us not have such a machine any longer” (Thoreau 8). In Henry David Thoreau’s essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” the author compares government to a machine, and its friction to inequity. He believes that when injustice overcomes a nation, it is time for that nation’s government to end. Thoreau is ashamed of his government, and says that civil disobedience can fight the system that is bringing his country down. Alas, his philosophy is defective: he does not identify the benefits of organized government, and fails to recognize the danger of a country without it. When looked into, Thoreau’s contempt for the government does not justify his argument against organized democracy.
Through the years, individuals have shown that a single man can make a difference. Men who, when committed to a cause, will rise up with honor, integrity, and courage. Cesar Chavez was such a man. He represented the people and rose above his self concerns to meet the needs of the people. Cesar Chavez showed us that, “The highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.” He lived by this standard and fought freedom with the highest form of dignity and character.
Cesar Chavez uses morals and his audience fear of destruction to justify his stance on non-violent protests . Martin Luther King jr was an activist and civil rights leader that did not use violence to get his point across like many other activists at that time. Cesar Chavez wrote on the anniversary of his death explaining why using nonviolence is the way to advocate rights for those in need. His article was put in a religious organization that helped people who were in need of help. Cesar Chavez uses morals as a way to appeal to the religious side of his audience. Cesar Chavez also uses the fear of losing power to prove that doing nonviolent protests are the right way to spread his cause.
The reason being is that he remembered all the injustice being committee to the immigrant’s workers and children. The working and living conditions was so bad for the field workers, sometimes they had to live in their car and if they did get housing in immigrant’s labor camp it was very small, it was one small room for a family of five or six. The field worker’s family would work up to fifteen hours a day for minimum wage with no over time, no health insurance benefits. Chavez later went on his own and organize United Farm Workers (UFW); they design a flag for their union, a black eagle in the middle with red color on the outside with his own money of $900, he stared this in his hometown of Delano California. He stared traveling from farm to farm to get worker to join his union. In 1965 Chavez did his first march with 300 people, they march from Delano to Sacramento it took them 25 days to reach Sacramento. They were joined by 10,000 people. They continue to do march and strikes; Chavez was against violence during all his marches and strikes. Chavez tries to negotiate with Gallo and Christian Bros, but to no use they did not want to change things. In 1968, production in the grapes dropped from 90% to 12% nationwide, due to the ongoing strikes. In 1970 Chavez stared fasting and the growers stared to sigh with the union to give the workers better pay and better leaving conditions. In
In Cesar Chavez’s article, he uses many rhetorical devices to help give the reader a better understanding of how important nonviolence vs violence is. Chavez explains how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi have endowed reasons of nonviolence worth following.
Cesar Chavez used inspiration from Dr. King's paper to talk about non violence. Cesar used the observations and conclusions of King’s works to rhetorically use pathos to form arguments. Most arguments took in the reader's attention because Chavez used the reader's emotions and logical explanations to create his excerpt.
When we think of the word “Protest,” we may think of the events that have happened recently. Egypt, Turkey, Libya and other countries where citizens have come out to the streets protesting their government. Not all protesting approaches are like this. Many, throughout history, have been based around peaceful actions. This approach was used during one of the great line of protests in American history. The Civil Rights movement. Many leaders used peace to promote their cause and promoted the passing of laws such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The many leaders of this movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and others influenced others to join the strive for equality. One of these people that they influenced was John Lewis.
Chavez uses multiple rhetorical strategies to bring forth the ideal that nonviolence and achieves his purpose by show his involvement and compassion in nonviolence. He delivers strong arguments to gain the support of his followers and achieves his purpose of bringing attention to and gaining the support of nonviolence.Today Cesar Chavez leaves a legacy as one of the prime examples of a nonviolent protester and is known for founding president
To sum up, Chavez was a man that fought for farmers to be traded better. One of his quotes was “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people”. With this, we can conclude that no matter the kind of strike he had lead, it was always for the people. For example, when he was fighting about the pesticide in grapes or lettuces, the true fight he was leading was always a fight for the people in order to make their lives easier. Maybe his life was not easy as a child working at a young age or maybe it got more complicated as he got older and enter the unions to defend the people that worked on farms, but he got to be a hero among the farmers. More importantly, Chavez got the farmers the momentum they needed in order for them to fight for what they wanted, and in the end, accomplished to get the rights they deserved.
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Cesar Chavez was a Hispanic migrant worker who fought for the rights of other migrant farm workers. His strategy for fighting inequality was through nonviolent strikes, boycotts, and marches. In this interview of him by a Christian magazine, Chavez uses logical and religious appeals, and allusions to justify his usage of nonviolent resistance in order to gain civil rights.
Utilizing paradox, Chavez describes the effectiveness of nonviolent protest to his audience. Recalling the achievements of MLK, Chavez claims that King “learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.” This quote demonstrates