Ce. -%r Chavez never let himself become satisfied with the progress he had made. Instead. he personally suffered in order to push the movement farther. In his quest to show the dangers facing migrant farmworkers. he would often fast. Many close to Cesar Chavez tried to stop him from endangering his own life. When once asked "Why do you bear the pain of fasting?" Cesar stated that it was "for his purification and an act of penance for those in positions of moral authority and for all men and women activists who know what is right and just. who know that they could or should do more. who have become bystanders and thus collaborators with an industry that does not care about its workers." We must not let ourselves become bystanders to injustice. but instead continue the work started by Cesar Chavez.