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Cesar Chavez Quotes

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life Picture Quote #1
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations… Picture Quote #1
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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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 Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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 and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes Picture Quote #1
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone’s happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don’t go. When we look and see what’s happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours Picture Quote #1
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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, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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 have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions... We shall be heard Picture Quote #1
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
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. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families Picture Quote #1
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If you’re outraged at conditions, then you can’t possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can’t change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice Picture Quote #1
If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products Picture Quote #1
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However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations…  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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 and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone’s happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don’t go. When we look and see what’s happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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 have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions... We shall be heard  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) 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. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) If you’re outraged at conditions, then you can’t possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can’t change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice  (Cesar Chavez Quotes) If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products  (Cesar Chavez Quotes)
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