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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Chavez
Age: 66 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 31
Died: 1993
Died: April 23
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César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez
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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.
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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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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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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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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.
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Grant me courage to serve others For in service there is true life.
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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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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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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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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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