“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”

“I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.”

“Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!”

“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.”

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.”

“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 ChavezAddress to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 ”