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.
CESAR CHAVEZYou cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
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The people united will never be defeated.
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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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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.
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It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
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There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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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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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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