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Other Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
- 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…
- ...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- (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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and…
- ...many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see…
- Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such…
- 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…
- I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the…
- . . . 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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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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