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

Cesar Chavez

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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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  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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  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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  I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

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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 do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

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  Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

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  It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

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  You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.

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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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  Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

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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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  We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

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  Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

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