To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
CESAR CHAVEZOur language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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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.
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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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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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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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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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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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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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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom.
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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