Dear Mr. Barr,
.. This letter does not express all that is in my heart, Mr. Barr. But if it says nothing else it says that we do not hate you or rejoice to see your industry destroyed; we hate the agribusiness system [agricultural corporations] that seeks to keep us enslaved and we shall overcome and change it not by retaliation or bloodshed but by a determined nonviolent struggle carried on by those masses of farm workers who intend to be free and human.
Sincerely yours,
Cesar E. Chavez
- Cesar Chavez, letter to E.L. Barr Jr., Good Friday, 1969, in Andrew Carroll, ed., Letters of a Nation, Broadway Books Which action did Cesar Chavez take that is most consistent with the theme of this excerpt?
O organizing a farm workers union
promoting the takeover of large corporations by farm workers
asking Congress to pass legislation for low income housin
• calling for stricter enforcement of immigration laws