We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys. — 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
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human. — 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
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve… — 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… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — 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
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
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
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
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
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
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
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
...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
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
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
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
