“Dr. King realized that the only real wealth comes from helping others.”

— César Chávez, Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1990)

About César Chávez

1927 – 1993

American labor leader and civil-rights activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers.

“Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich.”

“We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings.”

“We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth.”

“A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”