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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

If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

— Cesar Chavez

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

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

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

— Cesar Chavez

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

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

— Cesar Chavez

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

...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

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

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

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

— Cesar Chavez

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

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

— Cesar Chavez

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