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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.

Cesar Chavez

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.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Change Deep Man People Yourself
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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Dignity Himself Human Respect
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
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Difference Endurance Force Live Myself
Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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Believe Live Talk
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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Expectation Himself Leadership Man People Reason
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
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Learning Life Live Violence
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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Angry Love Possible Time
If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Animal Food Happiness Live Suffering Yourself
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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Action Violence Weakness
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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Discipline Freedom Greatness Understand
The people united will never be defeated.
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Defeat People True Unity
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Fear Ourselves Suffering Win
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Character Growth Language Ourselves Reflection
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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Act Courage God Man Myself Ourselves Sacrifice Suffering True
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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Oppression Scare Yourself
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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Dignity Human Ourselves People Poor
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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Change Punishment
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
We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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Future Love Ourselves Relationship
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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History Respect
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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Dedication Experience Spiritual
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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Need Perfection Politics
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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Freedom Learning Student Thinking
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
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Powerful Sacrifice Weapon Yourself

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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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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