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Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

Cesar Chavez

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can’t help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That’s what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.
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Help Love People Sacrifice Start Willing
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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Best Destruction Ourselves Teaching
There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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Heart Mind Ourselves Revolution Win
If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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Crazy Failure Job Yourself
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
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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Believe Creation Fall Give Up Imagination Lost Suffering Violence Win
There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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Challenge Live People Reason Violence Yourself
If we are full of hatred, we can’t really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
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Hate Planning Strength
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
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Children Enjoyment Man Morning Night Oppression Time Women
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
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Body Justice Ourselves Poor Powerful Rich Spirit Struggle Weapon
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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Discover Life Yourself
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom.
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Animal Fear Feeling Happiness Myself
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
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
We 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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Community Help Nation Need Parents Strength Student
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

Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

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Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.

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