There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
CESAR CHAVEZEvery 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
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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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Real 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?
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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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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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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work.
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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’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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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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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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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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We’ll organize workers in this movement as long as we’re willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
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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.
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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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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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