This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, … - Cesar Chavez

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I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down.

Cesar Chavez

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. '

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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

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True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

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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.

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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

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