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Cesar Chavez

Read through the most famous quotes from Cesar Chavez




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


#eat #friend #give #go #heart

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


— Cesar Chavez


#culture #cultures #disrespect #does #other

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


#despair #dignity #fill #need #needs

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


— Cesar Chavez


#free #imitators #initiative #learn #mere

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


— Cesar Chavez


#non-violence #such #thing

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


— Cesar Chavez


#always #fight #grapes #lettuce #never

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


— Cesar Chavez


#despair #draw #endure #forced #live

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


— Cesar Chavez


#exact #growth #language #our #ourselves

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


#consumer #corporations #force #gets #given

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


#better #book #books #consist #drawing






About Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez Quotes




Did you know about Cesar Chavez?

Chavez dropped out to become a full-time migrant farm worker. In the Midwest Chavez's movement inspired the founding of two midwestern independent unions: Obreros Unidos in Wisconsin in 1966 and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in Ohio in 1967. Chávez Foundation.

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After his death he became a major historical icon for the Latino community organized labor and liberal movement symbolizing support for workers and for Hispanic power based on grass roots organizing and his slogan "Sí se puede" (Spanish for "Yes one can" or roughly "Yes it can be done"). By the late 1970s his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50000 field workers in California and Florida. However by the mid-1980s membership in the UFW had dwindled to around 15000.

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