Cesar Chavez Quotes

• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Hope, Despair

• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Language

• Our opponents in the agricultural industry are very powerful and farm workers are still weak in money and influence. But we have another kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as we are willing to sacrifice for that cause, so long as we persist in non-violence and work to spread the message of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their heart, will support our efforts … and in the end we will overcome.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Justice, Power, Sacrifice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Labor

• The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labor

• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dignity, Strength

• There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance, Patience

• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate 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. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Education, Fear, Future

  Tags in Social Change, Pride

• 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.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Heart

• Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Peace

• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

• There’s no turning back…We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Commitment

• Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Education, Humanity

• Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves–and be free.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Students

• Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

  Cesar Chavez

• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

  Cesar Chavez

  Tags in Nonviolence

• You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.

  Cesar Chavez

• 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.

  Cesar Chavez

• Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

  Cesar Chavez

  Tags in Nonviolence

Cesar Chavez (21)

Birth:	31st March, 1927
Death:	23rd April, 1993
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Farmer, Union Leader

About

Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona. He was an American farmer, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. He is also famous for popularizing the slogan "Sí, se puede", which was adopted as the 2008 campaign slogan of Barack Obama. His supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday, March 31, has become Cesar Chavez Day, a state holiday in California, Colorado, and Texas. He worked in the fields until 1952, when he became an organizer for the Community Service Organization, a Latino civil rights group.

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