In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
CESAR CHAVEZWe must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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 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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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 no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
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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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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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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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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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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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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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