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Cesar Chavez Inspirational Quotes (86)

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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.
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If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.
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If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.
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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 way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.
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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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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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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
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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.
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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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Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
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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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Together, all things are possible
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream the second is persistence.
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History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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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.
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We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
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Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
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Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.
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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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We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.
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