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.
CESAR CHAVEZThe people united will never be defeated.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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The people united will never be defeated.
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