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Struggle Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
- The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
- If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will…
- I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle…
- Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our…
- When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that…
- There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down…
- ...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.
- When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we…
- 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 Struggle Quotes
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities… — Albert Bandura
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is… — Charles A. Beard
- Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett