Dennis Chavez quotes

“We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.”
-- Dennis Chavez

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”

“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”

“Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.”

“That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.66, Vintage Canada

“Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.”