Cesar Chavez Quotes
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Cesar Chavez Quotes & Sayings
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A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride ... When people see it they know it means dignity.
— Cesar Chavez
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
— Cesar Chavez
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
— Cesar Chavez
The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.
— Cesar Chavez
The people united will never be defeated.
— Cesar Chavez
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
— Cesar Chavez
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.
— Cesar Chavez
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
— Cesar Chavez
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
— Caitlin Flanagan
We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.
— Cesar Chavez
When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.
— Cesar Chavez
If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
— Cesar Chavez
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
— Cesar Chavez
Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.
— Cesar Chavez
The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
— Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
— Cesar Chavez
The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
— Cesar Chavez
We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
— Cesar Chavez
Together, all things are possible
— Cesar Chavez
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
— Cesar Chavez
Talk is cheap ... It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
— Cesar Chavez
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
— Cesar Chavez
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
— Cesar Chavez
Julio Cesar Chavez will never be ready to fight me.
— Sergio Martinez
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
— Cesar Chavez
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
— Cesar Chavez
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
— Cesar Chavez
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
— Cesar Chavez
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
— Cesar Chavez
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
— Cesar Chavez
We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
— Cesar Chavez
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 the same again.
— Cesar Chavez
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
— Cesar Chavez
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
— Cesar Chavez
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
— Cesar Chavez
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.
— Cesar Chavez
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt ... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
— Cesar Chavez
Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are
— Cesar Chavez
There's no turning back ... We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart ...
— Cesar Chavez
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
— Cesar Chavez
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
— Cesar Chavez
Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
— Cesar Chavez
What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
— Cesar Chavez
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.
— 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
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
— Cesar Chavez
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
— Cesar Chavez
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
— Cesar Chavez
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
— Cesar Chavez
Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
— Cesar Chavez
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
— Cesar Chavez
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
— Cesar Chavez
