"It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn."

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Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

Cesar Chavez

#Moon Quotes #Oil Quotes #People Quotes

“Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.”
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.”
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.”
“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.”
“At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.”
“Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.”
“My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.”
“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.”

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