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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

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!
CESAR CHAVEZ

Act Courage God Man Myself Ourselves Sacrifice Suffering True
The people united will never be defeated.
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Defeat People True Unity
You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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Enough Help Need Strong Yourself
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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Difference Human Ideas Myself
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Difference Endurance Force Live Myself
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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Hate Planning Strength
We’ll organize workers in this movement as long as we’re willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
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Moments Sacrifice Stop Willing
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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Excitement Moon People
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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Community Help Nation Need Parents Strength Student
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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Principle Violence
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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Animal Cold Feeling Happiness Myself
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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Children Enjoyment Man Morning Night Oppression Time Women
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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Believe Deep Life Live
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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Animal Food Happiness Live Suffering Yourself
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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Defeat Hands People Suffering Talk Violence
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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Angry Love Possible Time

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