Top 100 Quotes About Chavez
#1. The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.
Hugo Chavez
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
Hugo Chavez
#5. I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.
Nicolas Maduro
#6. I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez
#7. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
Anna Maria Chavez
#8. I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.
Hugo Chavez
#9. To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Cesar Chavez
#10. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez
#11. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#12. 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
#13. I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C.
Sean Hannity
#14. When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
Cesar Chavez
#15. 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
#16. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
Cesar Chavez
#17. I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against ... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Dennis Chavez
#18. The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
Hugo Chavez
#19. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
Anna Maria Chavez
#20. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Cesar Chavez
#21. Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak ... Non-violence is hard work.
Cesar Chavez
#22. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
Denise Chavez
#23. 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
#24. We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
Cesar Chavez
#25. Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez
#26. Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.
Sergio Martinez
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
Hugo Chavez
#30. One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.
Hugo Chavez
#31. 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
#33. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
Hugo Chavez
#34. We know we cannot 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
#35. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
Cesar Chavez
#36. What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
Anna Maria Chavez
#37. 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
#38. If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.
Hugo Chavez
#39. Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
#40. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian ... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
Hugo Chavez
#41. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
Lance Burton
#42. 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
#44. I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.
Nicolas Maduro
#45. Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.
Anna Maria Chavez
#46. 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
#48. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.
Cesar Chavez
#49. Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
Cesar Chavez
#50. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
Christopher Hitchens
#51. No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
Hugo Chavez
#52. For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon
#53. Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez
#54. The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.
Hugo Chavez
#55. Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
Linda Chavez
#56. We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Hugo Chavez
#57. That man, the king of vacations ... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how ... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
Hugo Chavez
#58. 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
#59. In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
Hugo Chavez
#60. The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
Cesar Chavez
#61. 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
#62. I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
Hugo Chavez
#63. Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
Linda Chavez
#64. I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,
Hugo Chavez
#65. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
#66. 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
#67. I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.
Hugo Chavez
#68. In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.
Cesar Chavez
#69. 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
#70. Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
Hugo Chavez
#71. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
Linda Chavez
#72. Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
Cesar Chavez
#73. I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Cindy Sheehan
#74. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
#75. It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
Hugo Chavez
#76. 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
#77. We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.
Mark Falcoff
#78. It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.
Hugo Chavez
#79. What I do shows people what kind of person I am.
Cesar Chavez
#80. There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
Cesar Chavez
#81. For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
Linda Chavez
#82. It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
Hugo Chavez
#83. 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
#84. Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.
Hugo Chavez
#85. Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Dennis Chavez
#86. We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
Hugo Chavez
#87. What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
Hugo Chavez
#88. If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.
Cesar Chavez
#89. Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
Don King
#90. The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
Cesar Chavez
#91. The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.
Leopoldo Lopez
#92. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
Hugo Chavez
#93. Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations ...
Cesar Chavez
#94. Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ
who I think was the first socialist
only socialism can really create a genuine society.
Hugo Chavez
#95. Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.
Hugo Chavez
#96. I think one of the great, great problems ... is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
Cesar Chavez
#97. 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
#98. Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are
Cesar Chavez
#99. Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.
Cesar Chavez
#100. We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
Hugo Chavez
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