Farm Workers Quotes
16 quotes by 6 authors
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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.…
— Cesar Chavez
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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…
— Cesar Chavez
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(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…
— Cesar Chavez
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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. They have a…
— Cesar Chavez
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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 proud of their…
— Cesar Chavez
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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. We are sons…
— Cesar Chavez
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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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 valleys the way…
— Cesar Chavez
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The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years.…
— Cesar Chavez
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I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers…
— Dolores Huerta
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It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers,
— Gloria Allred
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American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but…
— Frederick Douglass
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
— Caitlin Flanagan
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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son…
— Nelson Mandela
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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son…
— Nelson Mandela
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. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal…
— Cesar Chavez
Who Wrote These Farm Workers Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 16 Farm Workers Quotes as follows: