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title: "2 Affluent Quotes By Cesar Chavez"
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> [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. When the poor share some of the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/it-s-amazing-how-people-can-get-so-excited-about-a-rocket-to-the-moon/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

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> [Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/though-many-of-the-poor-have-come-to-see-the-affluent-middle-class-as/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

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## Other authors on Affluent

## More by Cesar Chavez

> [We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/we-need-in-a-special-way-to-work-twice-as-hard-to-help-people/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/if-you-win-non-violently-then-you-have-a-double-victory-you-have-not/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/when-we-are-really-honest-with-ourselves-we-must-admit-our-lives-are/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/we-know-we-cannot-be-kind-to-animals-until-we-stop-exploiting-them/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/non-violence-has-suffered-its-biggest-defeat-in-the-hands-of-people/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/it-is-clearly-evident-that-our-path-travels-through-a-valley-of-teas/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [The people who give you their food give you their heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/the-people-who-give-you-their-food-give-you-their-heart/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/the-name-of-the-game-is-to-talk-to-people-if-you-don-t-talk-to-people/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/people-think-non-violence-is-really-weak-and-non-militant-these-are/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/we-shall-strike-we-shall-organize-boycotts-we-shall-demonstrate-and/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/there-are-vivid-memories-from-my-childhood-what-we-had-to-go-through/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [Self dedication is a spiritual experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/self-dedication-is-a-spiritual-experience/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/i-am-convinced-that-the-truest-act-of-courage-the-strongest-act-of/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/you-cannot-oppress-the-people-who-are-not-afraid-anymore/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

> [When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/when-workers-fall-back-on-violence-they-are-lost-oh-they-might-win/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

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