Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez And The New American Revolution - Plot & Excerpts
It was not the “charisma” that is often ascribed to him; most charisma is in the eye of the beholder. The people who have known him longest agree that before the strike, Chavez’s presence was so nondescript that he passed unnoticed; he is as unobtrusive as a rabbit, moving quietly wherever he finds himself as if he had always belonged there. The “charisma” is something that has been acquired, an intensification of natural grace which he uses, not always unconsciously, as an organizing tool, turning it on like a blowtorch as the job requires. Once somebody whom he had just enlisted expressed surprise that Chavez had spent so little time in proselytizing. “All he did for three whole days was make me laugh,” the new convert said, still unaware that he’d been organized. Since Chavez knows better than anyone else what his appeals to public sentiment have accomplished for la causa, I had no doubt that as a writer I would be skillfully organized myself; but warmth and intelligence and courage, even in combination, did not account for what I felt at the end of the four-hour walk on that first Sunday morning.
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