Cesar Chavez Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

• Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

  Cesar Chavez

  People, Temptation, Poverty

• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

• However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Important, Degradation

• If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Giving, Littles

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.66, Texas A&M University Press

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