Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
CESAR CHAVEZConcentration 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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In the final analysis it doesn’t really matter what the political system is. We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
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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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The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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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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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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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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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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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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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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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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The people united will never be defeated.
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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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