All Cesar Chavez Quotes
- Self dedication is a spiritual experience. Commitment
- 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 or… All
- There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… Any
- There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart... Commitment
- We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline. Carries
- I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… Any
- The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer… Beautiful
- In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… Achieve
- When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen. Believe
- A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity. Aztec
- Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity. All
- What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself,… Accorded
- The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… Better
- The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character. All
- Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment. Best
- (Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring… Abundance
- I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a… Beatitudes
- Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their… Campesinos
- Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right… Any
- We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces. All
- People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is… Along
- There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it… Act
- We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose… Believer
- We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons… Boycott
- In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. Adversity