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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.
Cesar Chavez
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Cesar Chavez
Age: 66 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 31
Died: 1993
Died: April 23
Civil Rights Activist
Human Rights Activist
Laborer
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Yuma
Arizona
César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez
Cesar Estrada Chavez
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
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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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[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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The people who give you their food give you their heart.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.
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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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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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When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.
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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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Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.
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Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
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