We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
CESAR CHAVEZIf 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom.
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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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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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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.
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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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