Cesar Chavez Quotes

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• We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations…
• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you…
• It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and…
• Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
• Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
• The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
• Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The…
• Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book…
• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
• When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use…
• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with…
• In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
• There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing…
• If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will…
• I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle…

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