Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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Do not romanticize the poor. We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
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Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.
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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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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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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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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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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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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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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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In the final analysis it doesn’t really matter what the political system is. We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
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We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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