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.

Quote by Cesar Chavez

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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think...

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think...

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with...

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with...

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with...

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the...

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the...

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own...

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own...

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

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

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has...

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has...

. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers...

. . . when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers...

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to...

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to...

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and...

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and...

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or...

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or...

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

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

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake...

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less...

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less...