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
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — 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
...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
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human… — 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
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things… — 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
Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — 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
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
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite… — 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
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot… — 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 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
