Cesar Chavez Quotes About Nonviolence

Quotes about: Nonviolence

• Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, War, Hard Work

• There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Violence, Defeat

• Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Practice, Humanity

• If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Heart, People

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

• Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, Believe

• The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Humanity, Principles

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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