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
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their… — 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
"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves. — 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
[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about… — 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
Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become?… — 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
When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization. — 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 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
