The people united will never be defeated.
CESAR CHAVEZNever, 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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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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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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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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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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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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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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