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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.

Cesar Chavez

It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
CESAR CHAVEZ

Food Yourself
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
What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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Kind Myself People
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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Defeat Violence
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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Dignity Himself Human Respect
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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Experience Inspirational Yourself
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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Discover Life Yourself
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
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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Give Up Justice Struggle Suffering Survive
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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History Respect
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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Determination Honesty Kind Live Men Ourselves
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.
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Powerful Sacrifice Weapon Yourself
When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
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Community Family Himself Man Sick World
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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Best Book Education Goodness Humanity Reality
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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Change Punishment
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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Dignity Human Ourselves People Poor

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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