American - Activist | March 31, 1927 - April 23, 1993
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
Cesar Chavez
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Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.
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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.
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The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.
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If you want to remember me, organize!
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.
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We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
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