"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984"

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Source : Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.129, Texas A&M University Press

Cesar Chavez

#Peace Quotes #Pride Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.”
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

Source : "Notes on the Cinematograph".
“The devil comes to bring a fate you couldn't imagine in your wildest dream.”
“I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.”
“I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system.”

Source : Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.”
“I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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