Cesar Chavez Quotes About Nonviolence

We have collected for you the TOP of Cesar Chavez's best quotes about Nonviolence! Here are collected all the quotes about Nonviolence starting from the birthday of the Civil rights activist – March 31, 1927! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 6 sayings of Cesar Chavez about Nonviolence. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

    Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press
  • Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

  • Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

  • Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

  • There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

  • The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

    Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin
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Cesar Chavez

  • Born: March 31, 1927
  • Died: April 23, 1993
  • Occupation: Civil rights activist