We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
CESAR CHAVEZ
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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
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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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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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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
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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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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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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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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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