If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
CESAR CHAVEZThe people united will never be defeated.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
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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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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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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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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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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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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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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 must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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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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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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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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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything – even our lives – in our struggle for justice.
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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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.
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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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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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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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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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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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