In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
CESAR CHAVEZ
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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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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When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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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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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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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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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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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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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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