Cesar Chavez Quotes on Education, Labor, Immigration

Cesar Chavez Quotes on Education, Labor, Immigration

The American labor leader, community organizer, and Latin American civil rights activist César Estrada Chávez (31 March 1927–23 April 1993) was American. Together with Dolores Huerta he co-founded the NFWA that subsequently merged with the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined Roman Catholic social teachings with leftistic politics.

Cesar Chavez Quotes:

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

Cesar Chavez

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

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

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

CESAR CHAVEZ

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

CESAR CHAVEZ

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

CESAR CHAVEZ

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

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

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

CESAR CHAVEZ

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

CESAR CHAVEZ

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

CESAR CHAVEZ

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

CESAR CHAVEZ
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