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
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
If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to… — 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
...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… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to… — 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
If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just… — 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
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
