From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

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

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
- Cesar Chavez Quote

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

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.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
- Cesar Chavez Quote

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
- Cesar Chavez Quote