You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
CESAR CHAVEZThe people who give you their food give you their heart.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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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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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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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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In the final analysis it doesn’t really matter what the political system is. We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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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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It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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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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