Cesar Chavez Quotes
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
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.
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this communityand this nation.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this communityand this nation.
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 Quotes part 2
What the individual learns, they learn for all. The richness of their learning experience radiates outward.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with them… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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?
When we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of people we are.
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?
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.
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
History will judge societies and governmentsand their institutionsnot by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
Grow your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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.
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and protection as others, we cannot call ourselves an equal society.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
We have always seen [migrant] labor as the lowest, cheapest labor, but we have to train people to think of literacy as the new minimum wage.
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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.
Our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of people we are.
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
What the individual learns, they learn for all. The richness of their learning experience radiates outward.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this communityand this nation.
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
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.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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?
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
