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Own Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations…
- Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
- Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book…
- From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.…
- Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.…
- When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for…
- 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…
- We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov