...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.
Cesar ChavezWhen the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.
Cesar ChavezOrganizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
Cesar ChavezThe only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.
Cesar Chavez