Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
CESAR CHAVEZWe do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
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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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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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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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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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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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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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You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.
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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything – even our lives – in our struggle for justice.
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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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