Best Cesar Chavez Quotes

#1. Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Cesar Chavez

#2. 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

#3. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

#4. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

Cesar Chavez

#5. Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

#6. Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Cesar Chavez

#7. The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

Cesar Chavez

#8. When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Cesar Chavez

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

Cesar Chavez

#10. I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of the fear of empty stomachs.

Josefina Lopez

#11. In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

Cesar Chavez

#12. 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.

Cesar Chavez

#13. Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Cesar Chavez

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

Cesar Chavez

#15. 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.

Cesar Chavez

#16. What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

Cesar Chavez

#17. Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Cesar Chavez

#18. 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.

Cesar Chavez

#19. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.

Cesar Chavez

#20. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Cesar Chavez

#21. To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Cesar Chavez

#22. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

Cesar Chavez

#23. If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Cesar Chavez

#24. When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

Cesar Chavez

#25. 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.

Cesar Chavez

#26. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

Cesar Chavez

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

Cesar Chavez

#28. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Cesar Chavez

#29. Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

Cesar Chavez

#30. We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

Cesar Chavez

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

Cesar Chavez

#32. True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Cesar Chavez

#33. 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

#34. What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

Cesar Chavez

#35. The people united will never be defeated.

Cesar Chavez

#36. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Cesar Chavez