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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community....

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

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

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

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We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their...

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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What bet...

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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work...

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We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health ha...

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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 y...

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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. S...

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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the trues...

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When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the ...

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Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise ...

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

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Cesar Chavez

Civil rights activist

Born: 1927-03-31

Died: 1993-04-23

César Estrada Chávez (31 March 1927 – 23 April 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW).More