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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Cesar Chavez

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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Help Love People Sacrifice Start Willing
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
There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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Heart Mind Ourselves Revolution Win
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
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Need People Problem Strength Togetherness
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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Discipline Freedom Greatness Understand
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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Defeat Violence
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.
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Believe Creation Fall Give Up Imagination Lost Suffering Violence Win
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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Determination Honesty Kind Live Men Ourselves
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
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Failure God Oppression Success Violence
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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Break Change Enough Fear Hate Love Ourselves
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
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Dignity Himself Human Respect
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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Discover Life Yourself
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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Character Growth Language Ourselves Reflection
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
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Education Learning Reading Yourself
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

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