Cesar Chavez Quotes - Page 3

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• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Diversity, Community, Parent

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• I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

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  Struggle, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.

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  Bases, Creatures

  Cesar Chavez's acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award from "In Defense of Animals", 1992.

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• There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

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  Hard Work, Commitment, Acceptance

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• Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.

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  Commitment, People, Demand

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• We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

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  Children, Struggle, Heart

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• 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 - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

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  Heart, Rights, Long

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

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  Social, Social Change, Humiliate

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.266, Penguin

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• 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 the surface.

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  Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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• It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

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  Moon, Oil, Giving

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

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  Powerful, Sacrifice, Weapons

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.71, Texas A&M University Press

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• Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

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  Animal, Cruelty, Live Well

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• 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 to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

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  Leadership, Hard Work, Talking

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• [We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people.

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  Believe, Fighting, People

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• Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

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  Hate, America, Political

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there.

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  Moving, Organization, Long

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• Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

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  Kindness, Animal, Compassion

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• I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

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  Leadership, Want, Workers

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• Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
  Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

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  Kings, Challenges, Humanity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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• I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

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  Differences, Action, Form

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• 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 parents' professions as other children are of theirs.

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  Children, Sacrifice, Sweat

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• The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

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  Educational, Character, Building Up

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• Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

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  Giving Up, Struggle, Order

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.64, Penguin

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• Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

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  Jesus, Brother, Sacrifice

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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 was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

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  Memories, Commitment, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.78, Penguin

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