Adversity Quote by Cesar Chavez

“In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.”

Cesar Chavez

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If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we…

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We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in…

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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

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it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the…

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The people who give you their food give you their heart.

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The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're…

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...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more…

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We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are…

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There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there…

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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

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