Cesar Chavez Day 2025 is on Monday, March 31, 2025: Are Post Offices open on Cesar Chavez day?

Monday, March 31, 2025 is Cesar Chavez Day 2025. Cesar Chavez Day is an official state holiday in the U.S. states of California, Colorado and Texas. The day is commemorated to promote service to the community in honor of Cesar Chavez's life and work.

Cesar Chavez Day is an official state holiday in the U.S. states of California, Colorado and Texas. The day is commemorated to promote service to the community in honor of Cesar Chavez's life and work.

Yes unless Cesar Chavez day falls on Sunday. Cesar Chavez day is not a national holiday. The Post Office is closed on 10 recognized federal holidays.

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Who is Cesar Chavez?

The life of César Estrada Chávez in his words:

“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

“We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community— and this nation.”

“It is ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.”

“Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and the environment.”

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.”

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly—whether it’s religion or politics or unions —things happen.”

“We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference … they are gone when the farm worker said nothing and did nothing to help himself … Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions … We shall be heard.”

“A Union must be built around the idea that people must do things by themselves, in order to help themselves. Too many people have the idea that the farm worker is capable only of being helped by others. People want to give things to him. So, in time, some workers come to expect help from the outside. They change their idea of themselves. They become unaccustomed to the idea that they can do anything by themselves for themselves. They have accepted the idea that they are ‘too small’ to do anything, too weak to make themselves heard, powerless to change their own destinies. The leader, of course, gives himself selflessly to the members, but he must expect and demand that they give themselves to the organization at the same time. He exists only to help make the people strong.”

“We are going to pray a lot and picket a lot. There is no such thing as defeat in nonviolence. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice.”

“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”

“There are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.”

“Our struggle is not easy. Those that oppose our cause are rich and powerful, and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our own bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons."

"When we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determine what kind of men we really are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving of our lives do we find life."

"I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men.”

“It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

“Many decades ago the chemical industry promised the growers that pesticides would bring great wealth and bountiful harvests to the fields … What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike … These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike. The fields are sprayed with pesticides: like Captan, Parathion, Phosdrin, and Methyl Bromide. The poisons cause cancer, DNA mutation, and horrible birth defects. The Central Valley of California is one of the wealthiest agricultural regions in the world. In its midst are clusters of children dying from cancer. The children live in communities surrounded by the grape fields that employ their parents. The children come into contact with the poisons when they play outside, when they drink the water and when they hug their parents returning from the fields. And the children are dying…"

“There’s no turning back … We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart …In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.”

***Please see the sources below for more information about this special man who rose to become one of our greatest advocates of nonviolent change; whose faith, discipline, and strength brought hope and progress to the farm workers who labor in the fields and yearn for respect and self-sufficiency; and whose courage and dignity continue to be inspirational.

Yes We Can / Si Se Puede!

do you go to school on cesar chavez day?im mexican lol?

Cesar Chavez is a hero in Mexico and he deserves honor. Thus, students might not go to school during the celebration of the Cesar Chavez Day.