Cesar Chavez Quotes

We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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Future Love Ourselves Relationship
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
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Learning Life Live Violence
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
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
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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Leadership Myself
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
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Best Destruction Ourselves Teaching
If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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Crazy Failure Job Yourself
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
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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Change Mad Oneself
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
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
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Difference Endurance Force Live Myself
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
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Challenge Greatness Hope Humanity Myself Worth
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
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Need People Problem Strength Togetherness
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
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
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
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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Alone Heart Justice Peace People Struggle Violence Yourself
It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.
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Excitement Moon People
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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Defeat Violence
There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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Heart Mind Ourselves Revolution Win
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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Defeat Hands People Suffering Talk Violence
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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Believe Deep Life Live
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.
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History Respect
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
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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Expectation Himself Leadership Man People Reason
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.
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Discover Life Yourself

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