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Cesar Chavez

(1927–1993) Trade Unionist Philippines

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Cesar Chavez was a trade unionist from the Philippines, best known for Cesar Chavez.

Quick Facts About Cesar Chavez

Born: March 31, 1927
Died: April 23, 1993
Nationality: Philippines
Profession: Trade Unionist
Notable works: Cesar Chavez

About Cesar Chavez

Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Cesar Chavez · Page 5

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to…

Achievement

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Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty…

Damage

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Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from…

Children

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The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who…

America

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When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering,…

Caring

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...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't…

Commitment

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History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve…

Bigs

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Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the…

Affluent

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it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all…

Blood

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The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a…

Bits

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Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on…

Bigs

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Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who…

Backgrounds

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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at…

Asking

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I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right.…

Believe

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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and…

Approach

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However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important…

Degradation

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I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a…

Capitalism

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Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe…

Angry

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Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as…

Children

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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.…

Boycott

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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community -…

Cherish

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Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political…

Accounts

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In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Action

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