You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
CESAR CHAVEZ
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.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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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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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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Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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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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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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