In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
The people united will never be defeated.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
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
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
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.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.