Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.
CESAR CHAVEZThose 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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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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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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The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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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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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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There 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.
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When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand 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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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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