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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.

Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Principle Violence
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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Leadership Myself People Talk
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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Expectation Himself Leadership Man People Reason
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt. Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
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Hurt Oppression Violence
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Education Learning Reading Yourself
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
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Inspirational Love Money Power True Wealth
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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Destroy Kill Need Win
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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Animal Food Happiness Live Suffering Yourself
A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride. When people see it they know it means dignity.
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Choice Important People Pride See
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
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Determination Honesty Kind Live Men Ourselves
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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Discipline Freedom Greatness Understand
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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Food Heart People Yourself
We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.
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Believe Fight Food People
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
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Need People Problem Strength Togetherness
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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Achievement Alone Judgement Live Material Possible Wealth World
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Learning Life Live Violence
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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Failure God Oppression Success Violence
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
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Children Enjoyment Man Morning Night Oppression Time Women
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
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Best Destruction Ourselves Teaching
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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Change Deep Man People Yourself
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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Powerful Sacrifice Weapon Yourself
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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Animal Cold Feeling Happiness Myself
The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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Change Mad Oneself
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Beginning Change Revolution
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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Oppression Scare Yourself
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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Give Up Justice Struggle Suffering Survive
In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Deep Violence

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