The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
Interpretation
Knowledge should be used to help and serve others.
Cesar Chavez emphasizes that the ultimate goal of acquiring knowledge is to utilize it in service to humanity. This perspective highlights the importance of altruism and suggests that true wisdom comes from applying what we know for the benefit of others, rather than for personal gain or prestige.
In practice
In a speech to inspire volunteers, one might say, 'As Cesar Chavez said, the end of all knowledge should be service to others.'
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.
In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
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