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

Cesar Chavez

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  History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

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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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  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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  In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.

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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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  You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.

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  There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

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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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  If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.

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  When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.

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  The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

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  Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything – even our lives – in our struggle for justice.

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  There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

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  Do not romanticize the poor. We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

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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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  In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

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