If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
CESAR CHAVEZThe fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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If we are full of hatred, we can’t really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
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Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can’t help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That’s what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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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?
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When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
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We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.
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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.
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True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
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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!
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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.
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.
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We’ll organize workers in this movement as long as we’re willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
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