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.
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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The people united will never be defeated.
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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.
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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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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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In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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I’m not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they’ll ask for it.
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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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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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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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