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Human Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
- 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 the ideology, but…
- When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
- This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We…
- However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human…
- Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against…
- Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and…
- . . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein