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Knowledge is Power!
“He sat in this small, crowded office, pencil in hand, waiting on the people. Cesar Chavez was a field representative for the Community Service Organization, his small office more fitting of a one-room cottage, was situated on Vine Street, in the heart of the barrio, in Visalia.
The year was 1961, and it was the beginning of a hot summer. The summers of the San Joaquin Valley can get very hot. I had just been discharged from the military, and Cesars office was across the street from my home. One day I dropped by his office. It was a slow hot day and not many people were coming by, so we had some time to talk about what he was doing and his thoughts about the future. He had a passion and fierce drive for discussing and promoting societal changes. He was unrelenting in his talk that change had to come from the bottom up, that to have power you had to take power.”
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