Madam Speaker. this Saturday. millions of Americans will honor a great American heroCesar Chavezon what would have been his 80th birthday. Cesar Chavez was a civil rights and human rights leader who learned about the importance of justice early in his life. He would often say: "The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature." After graduating from the eighth grade. a young Cesar Chavez went to work in the fields as a migrant farm worker to support his family. In 1962. Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association. later to become the United Farm Workers.