Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
CESAR CHAVEZThe fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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.
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.
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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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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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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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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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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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Our struggle is not easy. Those who 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 bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
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I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.
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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.
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Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
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When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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