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
When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is… — 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
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
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over… — 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
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
We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for… — 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
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
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
Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything… — 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
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — 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
