Cesar Chavez Quotes

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

I am passionate about human rights.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

If you want peace work for justice.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

If you want peace, work for justice.

You can't build a new society by violating the rights of others.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!