The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
CESAR CHAVEZ
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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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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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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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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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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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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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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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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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
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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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