When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means… — 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
If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would… — 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
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over… — 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
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
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People… — 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
...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
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right.… — 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
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything… — 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
