You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
CESAR CHAVEZViolence just hurts those who are already hurt. Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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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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If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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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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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
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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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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you’re not a fanatic around here, you can’t cut it.
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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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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If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
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