“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate 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.”

— César Chávez, "What the Future Holds" (speech, 9 November 1984)

About César Chávez

1927 – 1993

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

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

“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.”

“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you.”

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning.”

“I can state from my own experience that what people fear in death is the loneliness of having to leave this world forever.”