[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 63 (Monday, April 5, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 17493-17494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07054]


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 The President

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                Proclamation 10163 of March 31, 2021

                
C[eacute]sar Ch[aacute]vez Day, 2021

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                In his time, C[eacute]sar E. Ch[aacute]vez witnessed a 
                booming economy that served those at the top, but left 
                millions of hardworking Americans behind--and he earned 
                an enduring place in history by standing strong for the 
                rights and dignity of the working people who built and 
                sustained our Nation. Today, on what would have been 
                his 94th birthday, we summon his courage and moral 
                clarity to guide us as we face the ongoing challenges 
                of a pandemic, a deeply unequal economic crisis, and a 
                long overdue national reckoning on racial and economic 
                justice. As we work to recover and rebuild an economy 
                that rewards hard work and brings everyone along--
                including the immigrants and farm workers he 
                championed, as well as the essential workers carrying 
                our Nation on their backs today--we have no finer role 
                model than C[eacute]sar Ch[aacute]vez.

                His legacy as the founder, along with Dolores Huerta, 
                of the United Farm Workers of America, reminds us of 
                the central place that organizing and collective 
                bargaining holds in advancing the dignity and wellbeing 
                of working Americans. It's a reminder that the power of 
                workers coming together to bargain for a better deal is 
                what built the American middle class and made possible 
                the American dream. Ch[aacute]vez taught us: ``Our 
                ambitions must be broad enough to include the 
                aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and 
                for our own.'' That most American of sentiments is as 
                resonant today as it has ever been, as we seek to build 
                back our Nation in a way that brings every single one 
                of us along.

                He fasted. He marched. He organized. He stayed true to 
                his convictions, and brought hope to millions for whom 
                hope had often seemed too far away. To him, ``La 
                Causa'' meant elevating our common humanity to the 
                center of an agenda for progress. And that elevation 
                meant organizing for safe and healthy workplaces, a 
                living wage, protections against sickness and 
                disability, time with family, and so much else that we 
                continue to prize and fight for today.

                I keep that lesson in my heart every day--and I was 
                proud to place a bust of C[eacute]sar Ch[aacute]vez in 
                the Oval Office, so that no one who enters that 
                historic room may forget the powerful truths his farm 
                worker hands imparted. On C[eacute]sar Ch[aacute]vez 
                Day, let us recommit ourselves to the duty we have in 
                service to one another to work toward equity and 
                justice across our communities.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 
                2021, as C[eacute]sar Ch[aacute]vez Day. I call upon 
                all Americans to observe this day as a day of service 
                and learning, with appropriate service, community, and 
                education programs to honor C[eacute]sar 
                Ch[aacute]vez's enduring legacy.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2021-07054
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