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.
CESAR CHAVEZIf you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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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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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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The people united will never be defeated.
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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 is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work.
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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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There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
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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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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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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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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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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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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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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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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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If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
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