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
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
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who… — 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
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases… — 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
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
