We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike… — 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
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
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and… — 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.… — 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
The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else. — 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
...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
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
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
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
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this… — 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
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
