Cesar Chavez Quotes - Page 2

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• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

  Cesar Chavez

  Strength, Struggle, Commitment

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.17, Texas A&M University Press

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• We have looked into the future and the future is ours.

  Cesar Chavez

  Humbug

  Cesar Chavez's address to the Commonwealth Club, esl-bits.net. November 9, 1984.

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• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Vegetables, Justice, Diversity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

  Cesar Chavez

  Thinking, Students, Initiative

  Lucile Davis, Cesar Chavez (1998). “Cesar Chavez: A Photo-illustrated Biography”, p.22, Capstone

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• 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 help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• 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 dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

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  Sacrifice, Suffering, Needs

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.351, Penguin

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• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

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  Character, Reflection, Growth

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• (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 in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Country, Ironic, Abundance

  "The Words of César Chávez".

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• 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 and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hate, Struggle, Giving

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.181, Texas A&M University Press

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• Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

  Cesar Chavez

  Education, Real, Book

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

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  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Perfect, Political, Immigration

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• There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Commitment, Winning

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• The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

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  Justice

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.159, Penguin

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• Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

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  Brother, Children, Mean

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• Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

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  Next, Bitter, Only Love

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• 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. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

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  Meaningful, Jesus, Struggle

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.157, Penguin

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• People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is truly nourishing. Such sick people should not frighten or discourage us. They should be prayed for along with the sick people who are in the hospital. "The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature."

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  Powerful, Sick, Justice

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.159, Penguin

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• There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

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  Leadership, Men, Giving

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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 not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started.

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  Commitment, Doors, Games

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• 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 us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.

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  Sacrifice, Ideas, Justice

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• Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

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  Peace, Powerful, Differences

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• In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Animal, Unhappy

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