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
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning… — 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
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. — 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
I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is… — 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
"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
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
[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
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about… — 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
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
