Following the tradition of his hero, Gandhi, Cesar Chavez became one of the greatest Hispanic leaders of our time. In the 1960’s, he organized the famous grape boycott to get average Americans to help migrant farmworkers to have a better life. In this story, he demonstrates his leadership by fasting as an act of penitence, inspiring his own people to turn them away from violent revenge of past abuses. “The truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice,” Cesar told them. “Only by giving our lives do we find life.”