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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 are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.
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In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
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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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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
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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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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
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Together, all things are possible
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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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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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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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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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...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
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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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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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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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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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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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