Cesar Chavez

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

— Cesar Chavez

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

— Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

— Cesar Chavez

We have looked into the future and the future is ours.

— Cesar Chavez

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

— Cesar Chavez

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

— Cesar Chavez

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

— Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

— Cesar Chavez

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

— Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

— Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

— Cesar Chavez

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

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

— Cesar Chavez

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

— Cesar Chavez

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

— Cesar Chavez

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

— Cesar Chavez

When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases…

— Cesar Chavez

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience…

— Cesar Chavez

I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things…

— Cesar Chavez

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals…

— Cesar Chavez

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does…

— Cesar Chavez

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything…

— Cesar Chavez

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know…

— Cesar Chavez

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or…

— Cesar Chavez

There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically…

— Cesar Chavez

...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

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same…

— Cesar Chavez

We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the…

— Cesar Chavez

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those…

— Cesar Chavez

What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and…

— Cesar Chavez

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means…

— 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…

— Cesar Chavez

. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted…

— 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

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his…

— Cesar Chavez

We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have…

— Cesar Chavez

“Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just…

— Cesar Chavez

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

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

— Cesar Chavez

The people united will never be defeated.

— Cesar Chavez