Cesar Chavez Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

It is not enough to reform the educational system. We have to replace the educational system.

… evolution over revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.