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The people united will never be defeated.

Cesar Chavez

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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Children Live Ourselves Parents Sacrifice
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Learning Ourselves Suffering
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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Hate Planning Strength
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.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Break Change Enough Fear Hate Love Ourselves
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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History Respect
Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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Battle Practice Violence
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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Change Punishment
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
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
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Justice Love Nature Ourselves True
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
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!
CESAR CHAVEZ

Act Courage God Man Myself Ourselves Sacrifice Suffering True
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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Destroy Kill Need Win
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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Fight People
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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Animal Cold Feeling Happiness Myself
History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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History Judgement Need Powerful Rich
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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Believe Deep Life Live

The people united will never be defeated.

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