You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
CESAR CHAVEZOrganizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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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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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.
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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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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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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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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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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 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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