When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
CESAR CHAVEZ
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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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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In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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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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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
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Do not romanticize the poor. We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
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Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.
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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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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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You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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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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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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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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We’ll organize workers in this movement as long as we’re willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
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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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