Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become?… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
...many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
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