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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.

Cesar Chavez

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.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Believe Creation Fall Give Up Imagination Lost Suffering Violence Win
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
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Community Family Himself Man Sick World
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Difference Endurance Force Live Myself
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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Defeat Hands People Suffering Talk Violence
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
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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Dreams Greatness Persistence True
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
We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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Future Love Ourselves Relationship
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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Acceptance Patience
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
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
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Challenge Greatness Hope Humanity Myself Worth
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
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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Dignity Himself Human Respect
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
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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Principle Violence
The people united will never be defeated.
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Defeat People True Unity

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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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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