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
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time. — 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.… — 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
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places.… — 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
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets… — 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 poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a… — 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
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
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
