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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.
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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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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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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Grant me courage to serve others For in service there is true life.
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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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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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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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Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.
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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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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
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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 do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
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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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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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History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
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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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Together, all things are possible
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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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Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
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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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