Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

— Cesar Chavez

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

— Cesar Chavez

The people united will never be defeated.

— Cesar Chavez

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

— Cesar Chavez

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

— Cesar Chavez

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

— Cesar Chavez

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

— Cesar Chavez

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

— Cesar Chavez

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

— Cesar Chavez

“Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

— Cesar Chavez

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.

— Cesar Chavez

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

— Cesar Chavez

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

— Cesar Chavez

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

— Cesar Chavez

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

— Cesar Chavez

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

— 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…

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you…

— Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it…

— Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to…

— Cesar Chavez

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is…

— Cesar Chavez

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their…

— Cesar Chavez

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may…

— Cesar Chavez

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one…

— Cesar Chavez

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

...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have…

— Cesar Chavez

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

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all…

— Cesar Chavez

There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is…

— Cesar Chavez

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the…

— Cesar Chavez

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means…

— Cesar Chavez

What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and…

— Cesar Chavez

. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted…

— Cesar Chavez

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

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

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his…

— Cesar Chavez

“Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just…

— Cesar Chavez

We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have…

— Cesar Chavez

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

— Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

— Cesar Chavez