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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
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Trade Unionist
Yuma
Arizona
César Chávez
César Estrada Chávez
Cesar Estrada Chavez
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Grant me courage to serve others For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
Cesar Chavez
We know we cannot defend to be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.
Cesar Chavez
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.
Cesar Chavez
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...
Cesar Chavez
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
Cesar Chavez
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
Cesar Chavez
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
We have looked into the future and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
Cesar Chavez
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
Cesar Chavez
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.
Cesar Chavez
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Cesar Chavez
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream the second is persistence.
Cesar Chavez
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Cesar Chavez
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.
Cesar Chavez
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
Cesar Chavez
...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.
Cesar Chavez
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
Cesar Chavez
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
Cesar Chavez