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.
CESAR CHAVEZOur struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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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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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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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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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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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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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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There are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
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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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Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
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