Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work.
CESAR CHAVEZPreservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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In the final analysis it doesn’t really matter what the political system is. We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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It’s 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.
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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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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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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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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything – even our lives – in our struggle for justice.
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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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