Cesar Chavez Quotes

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

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

The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle. The nation had for its cornerstone a strike.

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

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

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

I can hear you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

You have a task; go bravely home and take it up like men …. Do your duty also as citizens of the United States, do your duty as men who feel a responsibility upon you, and remember, friends, that it is better to die an uncrowned free man than a crowned slave. You and I must protest against this injustice to the American people that we are suffering

Kill As Many Of Us As You Want. We Are Not Going To Die

The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.