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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Cesar Chavez

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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Deep Violence
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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Dignity Human Ourselves People Poor
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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Greatness Human Person Suffering
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Food Heart People Yourself
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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Leadership Myself People Talk
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Beginning Change Revolution
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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History Respect
I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.
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Difference Human Ideas Myself
Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
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Believe Experience Learning Life Myself Powerful Violence
There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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Challenge Live People Reason Violence Yourself
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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Principle Violence
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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Animal Cold Feeling Happiness Myself
There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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Heart Mind Ourselves Revolution Win
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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Give Up Justice Struggle Suffering Survive
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Learning Life Live Violence
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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Dedication Experience Spiritual

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.

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