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We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

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
Politician
Trade Unionist
Yuma
Arizona
César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez
Cesar Estrada Chavez
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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 are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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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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A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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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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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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Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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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 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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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream the second is persistence.
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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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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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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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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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