There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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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If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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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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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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We 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.
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When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
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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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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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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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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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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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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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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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When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
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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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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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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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You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.
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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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