Cesar Chavez Quotes

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

Forget, Enough, Cannot

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

Life, Time, God

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

Food, Heart, Someone

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

Disrespect, Culture, Contempt

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, Learn, Themselves

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

Fight, Grapes, Lettuce

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

Work, Money, Poor

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

Strength, Live, Despair

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
Cesar Chavez

Men, Honest, Lives

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

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

Parents, Help, Nation

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

Work, Strength, Together

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

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

Education, Best, Book

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez

Violence, Cases, Requires

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

Work, Patience, Hard

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Cesar Chavez

Strong, Help, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 31, 1927

Died: April 23, 1993

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