43 result(s) for Cesar Chavez Quotes.
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
"You are never strong enough that you don't need help."
"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."
"We are convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence."
"Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the toil of the farmer."
"We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation."
"We know that when we unite, our dreams become reality."
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"The end of all knowledge must be service to others."
"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart."
"The people united, will never be defeated."
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win."
"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures."
"Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is everything we are. It is our history. This is who we are."
"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights, the poverty of the peasant becomes the poverty of all."
"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."
"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."
"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
"Real education should consist of drawing the truth out of the students, rather than stuffing them with facts."
"We must understand that the end goal is not material possessions; it is not getting even with our adversaries; it is not being able to swagger and posture; rather, it is belonging to the community in an emotional and spiritual way."
"Non-violence has respect for its opponent."
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"There's no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart."
"We have suffered, we are suffering, and we will suffer. We have known hunger. We know exploitation. But we have never lost faith in God, in ourselves, or in one another."
"It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice."
"I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging ideas."
"Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farmworkers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs."
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win."
"The only way to do work is to love the work you do."
"We are convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that nonviolence supports you if you have a just and moral cause. We are convinced that nonviolence provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive, and that is very important to win any contest."
"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better person to learn from than our own children?"
"Revolution is a transformation of values."
"We are men and women who have suffered and endured much, and not only because of our abject poverty but because we have been kept poor. The color of our skins, the languages of our cultural and native origins, the lack of formal education, the exclusion from the democratic process, the numbers of our men slain in recent wars -- all these burdens generation after generation have sought to demoralize us, to break our human spirit."
"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or region. Violence, even on a societal level, is not a solution but a problem. Cruelty is a sign of weakness."
"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."
"It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will fulfill it."
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"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart."
"We know that the poverty, lack of education and discrimination we face is the result of a long and brutal history of oppression. We also know that the only way to change that is through hard work, organizing and a relentless pursuit of justice."
"There's no turning back... We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart."
"We advocate militant nonviolence as our means of achieving justice for our people, but we are not blind to the forces that oppose us, nor are we insensible to the needs of our people."
"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the soil is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick."
"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't get to sock anybody back. [...] That's the hardest thing."
"We must have faith that people will change, that the human heart is good, that people can respond to appeal, that justice ultimately will triumph."
"When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life."
