We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of collective action in the pursuit of social justice and equality.
Cesar Chavez's quote speaks to the power of unity and organized efforts in the fight for justice, particularly for marginalized communities. By identifying themselves as 'sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution,' Chavez reinforces the idea that social change is a collective struggle for the rights of the poor and the quest for dignity and sustenance.
In practice
This quote can be used during a rally advocating for workers' rights.
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
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