When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — 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
