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Cesar Chavez
Chief Joseph (Prayer)

Lydia Maria Child
Shirley Chisholm

Cesar Chavez
b. 3-31-1927; near Yuma, AZ
d. 4-23-1993

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. The NFWA lead a five year strike and boycott of table grapes that lead to the improvement of working conditions of union farm workers in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

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Chief Joseph Poster

Chief Joseph’s Prayer

“Hear me my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun stands I will fight no more forever.”
Chief Joseph

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Lydia Maria Child, née Francis
b. 2-11-1802; Medford, MA
d. 10-20-1880; Wayland, MA

Novelist and journalist Lydia Maria Child was an abolitionist, women's rights and Indian rights activist, and opponent of American expansionism.

Child, who wrote anti-slavery fiction, helped author Harriet Jacobs with her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Her most remembered work is Over the River and Through the Woods.

Shirley Chisholm
b. 11-30-1924; Brooklyn NY
d. 1-1-2005

“I'm ‘fighting Shirley Chisholm,’ and I'm unbought and unbossed.” That was how U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm usually introduced herself to crowds. It was a very good description. Shirley Chisholm has always been a fighter, with very strong opinions and very little patience for people who fought the idea of change. Because of this, she has been called difficult and stubborn. But the many children Shirley Chisholm taught in day care classes, and the many people she helped while she was in Congress know her as a warm and caring person who always took the time to listen to them. This desire soon led Shirley into politics. At first, she worked on the campaigns of other black candidates. At the same time, she worked as a teacher. But in 1964, whe was elected to the New York State Assembly. And in November of 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In Congress, Shirley worked to stop discrimination in housing and employment. And she continued to speak out in favor of equality for women. In 1972, she ran for President as a Democrat and lost. But Shirley always said the real reason she ran was not to win, but to draw attention ito the issues she felt strongly about. Shirley Chisholm has always been a pioneer, and her message is simple: Don't listen to those who say, “you can't.” Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, “I can.” (poster published prior to 2005) ...

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Noam Chomsky
b. 12-7-1928; Philadelphia, PA

Noam Chomsky is a linguisitcs and analytic philosopher well known as a political dissident, anarchist and libertarian socialist.

Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and is also the eighth most cited source of all time.

He is currently professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noam Chomsky quotes ~
• “Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. The people, so-called, do exercise an occasional choice among those who Marx once called "the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling class.”
• “The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”
• “As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole, and by now that means the global community.”