Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader

"Kindness and compassion toward 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. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers


In 2006, the United Farm Workers of America, founded by Cesar Chávez and Dolores Huerta, supported a ban on cockfighting, writing in part, “Cockfighting is an unacceptable form of animal cruelty…”
And Rosa Rosales, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) wrote about cockfighting: “These barbaric practices have no place in the Latino culture and society.”