Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
CESAR CHAVEZWe cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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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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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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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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