The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
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. — 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
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — 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
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… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 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 twenty doors… — 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 takes more… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
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 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
