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.
CESAR CHAVEZThere 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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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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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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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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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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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The people united will never be defeated.
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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
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