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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.

Cesar Chavez

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.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Children Live Ourselves Parents Sacrifice
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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Achievement Alone Judgement Live Material Possible Wealth World
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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Destroy Kill Need Win
Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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Believe Live Talk
In the final analysis it doesn’t really matter what the political system is. We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
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Need Perfection Politics
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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Difference Human Ideas Myself
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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Fear Ourselves Suffering Win
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
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Freedom Learning Student Thinking
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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Body Justice Ourselves Poor Powerful Rich Spirit Struggle Weapon
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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Oppression Scare Yourself
You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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Enough Help Need Strong Yourself
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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Believe Deep Life Live
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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Education Learning Life Unity Yourself
Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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Language Ourselves Reflection
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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Acceptance Patience
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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Believe People Politics Religion Strong Togetherness Unity

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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