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Labor Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
- In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
- The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott…
- We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.…
- ...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.…
- Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most…
- We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only…
- . . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal…
More Labor Quotes
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm