March 31 marks the birthday of the great farm workers union leader, Cesar Chavez. There is no better way to celebrate his life than by sharing his legacy of wisdom:
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.’
“We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community—and this nation.”
“It is ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits and vegetables, and other foods that fill your table with abundance have nothing left for themselves.”
“Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one’s life to the liberation of the brother who suffers.”
“. . . we have another kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as are willing to sacrifice for that cause, so long as we persist in non-violence and work to spread the message of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their heart, will support our efforts . . . and in the end we will overcome.”
SI SE PUEDE!
