Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.
CESAR CHAVEZYou know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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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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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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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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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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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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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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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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Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
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I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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