Cesar E. Chavez
American farm worker, labor leader, civil rights activist, co-founded United
Farm Workers
(1927-1993)
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people … Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.”