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Work Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The…
- 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…
- There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
- 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.…
- We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose…
- I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking…
- 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…
- 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…
- When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,…
- Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't…
- Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the…
- Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth,…
- Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others…
- Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to…
- Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
- We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…
- Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to…
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- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda