As Martin Luther King said “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”. King teaches, spreads that it is just as horrible to witness oppression and let it continue uncontested. Cesar Chavez expands on this idea in an article he wrote that argues how non-violence resistance to oppression is more powerful than violence. In his argument he uses many convincing rhetorical devices to develop his argument such as ethos and rhetorical questions. Chavez uses pathos to appeal to the audience’s emotions and their compass of basic rights and wrongs. He does this by weaving his writing with phrases that create an emotional response in the reader. Phrases such as “The burdens of