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Grant me courage to serve others For in service there is true life.

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Chavez
Age: 66 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 31
Died: 1993
Died: April 23
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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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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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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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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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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
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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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When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
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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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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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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
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Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
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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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I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.
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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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Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
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