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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

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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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  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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  Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

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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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  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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  In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

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  You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

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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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  The people who give you their food give you their heart.

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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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  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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  There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.

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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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