Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
CESAR CHAVEZIf 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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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.
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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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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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If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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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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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
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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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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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