There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
CESAR CHAVEZ
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
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Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.
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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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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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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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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 people who give you their food give you their heart.
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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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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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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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Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-violence is hard work.
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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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The people united will never be defeated.
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Violence just hurts those who are already hurt. Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
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