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Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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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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...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.
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We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.
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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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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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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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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
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When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
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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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There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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