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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.
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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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream the second is persistence.
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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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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
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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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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
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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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Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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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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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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