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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

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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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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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 is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
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In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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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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We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.
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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 means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.
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We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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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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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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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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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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