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Cesar Chavez Biography

Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez, locally [ˈsesaɾ esˈtɾaða ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962. Originally a Mexican American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida.

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We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Animal, Fashion, Know, Name, Science, Sports

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Crazy, Fail, Jobs, Might, Work

Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.

Children, Sacrifice, Sustenance, Sweat, Workers

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

Children, Giving, Heart, People, Struggle

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

Brother, Challenge, Jesus, News, Sacrifice

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

Fighting, Grapes, Lettuce, Peace, People, Struggle

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

America, Citizens, Hate, Know, Political, Soft

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

Brother, Children, Give, Learn, Life, Mean

You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.

Know, Man, Men, Peace, People, Spot

There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present. . . What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

Cruelly, Land, Men, Poorest, Powerful, Understand

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

Direction, Good, Jesus, Meaningful, Struggle, Stuffed

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Demand, Humanity, Peace, Practice, Practices, Price

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Action, Everything, Firsts, Humanity, Peace, Principle

Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

High, Justice, Oppose, Powerful, Struggle

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

Action, Beings, Difference, Differences, Form, Rule

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings. . . We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace. '

Destiny, Movement, Oppose, Peace, Rights

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

Mean, Violence, Causes, Clear, Cause

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

Extremely, Powerful, Sacrifice, Weapon, Weapons

Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

Big, Disadvantaged, Fighting, Running, Troops, War

Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

Group, Organizing, Peaceful, People, Seen, Years

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