Cesar Chavez Quotes

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

We are poor and our allies are few, but we have our bodies and justice as our tools.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.

It is necessary today to have money, much money, to enjoy the right to speak ... Silence to the poor!