From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
CESAR CHAVEZFrom the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
CESAR CHAVEZI’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.
CESAR CHAVEZThere’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
CESAR CHAVEZIn some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
CESAR CHAVEZTalk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
CESAR CHAVEZThere are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
CESAR CHAVEZIt is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
CESAR CHAVEZWe do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
CESAR CHAVEZWhen you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
CESAR CHAVEZHistory will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
CESAR CHAVEZIn giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
CESAR CHAVEZOnce social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
CESAR CHAVEZReal education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
CESAR CHAVEZI am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
CESAR CHAVEZIf 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.
CESAR CHAVEZWe need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.
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