What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
CESAR CHAVEZ
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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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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I’m not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they’ll ask for 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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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.
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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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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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