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.

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

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

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.

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

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

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.

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

There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart...

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