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Workers Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- (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…
- I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a…
- 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…
- We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons…
- 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…
- I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.
- 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,…
- 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…
- We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
- We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we…
- ...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…
- The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years.…
- . . . 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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