When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act… — 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
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in 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
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all… — 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 thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing. — 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
...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
If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as… — 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
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
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
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
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 we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so 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
