You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
CESAR CHAVEZOur language is the reflection of ourselves.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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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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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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When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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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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I’m not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they’ll ask for it.
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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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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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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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If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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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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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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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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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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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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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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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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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.
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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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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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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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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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