If we are full of hatred, we can’t really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
CESAR CHAVEZOrganizing 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 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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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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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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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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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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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
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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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Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
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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 cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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