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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.
Cesar Chavez
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Cesar Chavez
Age: 66 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 31
Died: 1993
Died: April 23
Civil Rights Activist
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César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez
Cesar Estrada Chavez
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.
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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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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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Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
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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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There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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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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We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.
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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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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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In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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