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

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Education Learning Reading Yourself
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Fear Ourselves Suffering Win
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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Destroy Kill Need Win
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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Freedom Learning Student Thinking
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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Angry Love Possible Time
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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Believe People Politics Religion Strong Togetherness Unity
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Food Heart People Yourself
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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Leadership Myself
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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Learning Ourselves Suffering
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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Change Deep Man People Yourself
A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride. When people see it they know it means dignity.
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Choice Important People Pride See
We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.
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Believe Fight Food People
You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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Enough Help Need Strong Yourself
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
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Best Book Education Goodness Humanity Reality
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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Powerful Sacrifice Weapon Yourself
Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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Battle Practice Violence

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

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