Tag: Cesar Chavez
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As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.
Cesar Chavez
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If you want to remember me, organize!
Cesar Chavez
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We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
Cesar Chavez
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
Cesar Chavez
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Cesar Chavez
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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
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez
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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
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.
Cesar Chavez
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There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
Cesar Chavez