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Cesar Chavez

César Estrada Chávez (31 March 1927 – 23 April 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW).

Quotes

 * ¡Sí se puede!
 * It can be done!
 * Personal motto later officially used by the United Farm Workers

 * You are here to discuss a matter which is of extreme importance to yourselves, your families and your community, so let's get to the subject at hand. A hundred and fifty-five years ago, in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico, a padre proclaimed the struggle for liberty. He was killed, but ten years later Mexico won its independence. We Mexicans here in the United States, as well as all other farm workers, are engaged in another struggle for the freedom and dignity which poverty denies us. But it must not be a violent struggle, even if violence is used against us. Violence can only hurt us and our cause. The law is for us as well as the ranchers. The strike was begun by the Filipinos, but it is not exclusively for them. Tonight we must decide if we are to join our fellow workers.
 * Delano, California (16 September 1965) as quoted in Delano: the story of the California Grape Strike (1967) by John Gregory Dunne

 * I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.
 * As quoted in Lumen (1986) by G. J. Caton, p. 133

 * We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.
 * Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California (11 January 1991)

 * We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to make all people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves... The basis for peace is respecting all creatures... That's the basis, the beginning for peace. ...We know we cannot defend or be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting them in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.
 * Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from In Defense of Animals in 1992.

 * History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
 * As quoted in Cesar Chavez : A Triumph of Spirit (1997) by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, p. 116

 * "We can't be free ourselves if we can't free our women. "
 * Attributed in Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

The Plan of Delano (1965)

 * Full text online

 * We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.

 * Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

 * This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God-given rights as human beings. Because we have suffered — and are not afraid to suffer — in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything, even our lives, in our fight for social justice. We shall do it without violence because that is our destiny. To the ranchers, and to all those who opposes, we say, in the words of Benito Juárez: "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz." [Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.]

 * We seek the support of all political groups and protection of the government, which is also our government, in our struggle. For too many years we have been treated like the lowest of the low. Our wages and working conditions have been determined from above, because irresponsible legislators who could have helped us, have supported the rancher's argument that the plight of the Farm Worker was a "special case." They saw the obvious effects of an unjust system, starvation wages, contractors, day hauls, forced migration, sickness, illiteracy, camps and sub-human living conditions, and acted as if they were irremediable causes. The farm worker has been abandoned to his own fate — without representation, without power — subject to mercy and caprice of the rancher. We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference. To the politicians we say that the years are gone when the farm worker said nothing and did nothing to help himself. From this movement shall spring leaders who shall understand us, lead us, be faithful to us, and we shall elect them to represent us. We shall be heard.

 * We seek, and have, the support of the Church in what we do. At the head of the pilgrimage we carry La virgen de la Guadalupe because she is ours, all ours, Patroness of the Mexican people. We also carry the Sacred Cross and the Star of David because we are not sectarians, and because we ask the help and prayers of all religions.

 * We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hunger on us, and now we hunger for justice. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

 * We shall unite. We have learned the meaning of Unity.

 * The ranchers want to keep us divided in order to keep us weak. Many of us have signed individual "work contracts" with the ranchers or contractors, contracts in which they had all power. These contracts were farces, one more cynical joke at our impotence. That is why we must get together and bargain collectively. We must use the only strength that we have, the force of our numbers. The ranchers are few; we are many. United we shall stand.

 * We shall Strike. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons of the Mexican Revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking, bread and justice. Our revolution will not be armed, but we want the existing social order to dissolve, we want a new social order. We are poor, we are humble, and our only choices is to Strike in those ranchers where we are not treated with the respect we deserve as working men, where our rights as free and sovereign men are not recognized. We do not want the paternalism of the rancher; we do not want the contractor; we do not want charity at the price of our dignity. We want to be equal with all the working men in the nation; we want just wage, better working conditions, a decent future for our children. To those who oppose us, be they ranchers, police, politicians, or speculators, we say that we are going to continue fighting until we die, or we win. 'We shall overcome.

 * Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across ad dry plain. Our pilgrimage is the match that will light our cause for all farm workers to see what is happening here, so that they may do as we have done. The time has come for the liberation of the poor farm worker. History is on our side. May the strike go on! Viva la causa!
 * A similar statement (perhaps used in a later declaration) has been quoted at the UFW site: "Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields — there you will see our flags — with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain."

The Mexican-American and the Church (1968)

 * Speech at the Second Annual Mexican Conference, Sacramento, California (March 1968)

 * When we refer to the Church we should define the word a little. We mean the whole Church, the Church as an ecumenical body spread around the world, and not just its particular form in a parish in a local community. The Church we are talking about is a tremendously powerful institution in our society, and in the world. That Church is one form of the Presence of God on Earth, and so naturally it is powerful. It is powerful by definition. It is a powerful moral and spiritual force which cannot be ignored by any movement.

 * When the strike started in 1965, most of our friends forsook us for a while. They ran — or were just too busy to help. But the California Migrant Ministry held a meeting with its staff and decided that the strike was a matter of life or death for farm workers everywhere, and that even if it meant the end of the Migrant Ministry they would turn over their resources to the strikers. The political pressure on the Protestant Churches was tremendous and the Migrant Ministry lost a lot of money. But they stuck it out, and they began to point the way to the rest of the Church. In fact, when 30 of the strikers were arrested for shouting Huelga [Strike], 11 ministers went to jail with them.

 * The growers in Delano have their spiritual problems... we do not deny that. They have every right to have priests and ministers who serve their needs. But we have different needs, and so we needed a friendly spiritual guide. And this is true in every community in this state where the poor face tremendous problems. But the opposition raises a tremendous howl about this. They don't want us to have our spiritual advisors, friendly to our needs. Why is this? Why indeed except that there is tremendous spiritual and economic power in the church. The rich know it, and for that reason they choose to keep it from the people.

 * We should be prepared to come to the defense of that priest, rabbi, minister, or layman of the Church, who out of commitment to truth and justice gets into a tight place with his pastor or bishop. It behooves us to stand with that man and help him see his trial through. It is our duty to see to it that his rights of conscience are respected and that no bishop, pastor or other higher body takes that God-given, human right away.

 * What do we want the Church to do? We don't ask for more cathedrals. We don't ask for bigger churches of fine gifts. We ask for its presence with us, beside us, as Christ among us. We ask the Church to sacrifice with the people for social change, for justice, and for love of brother. We don't ask for words. We ask for deeds. We don't ask for paternalism. We ask for servanthood.

What the Future Holds (1984)

 * Speech (9 November 1984)

 * Today, thousands of farm workers live under savage conditions — beneath trees and amid garbage and human excrement — near tomato fields in San Diego County, tomato fields which use the most modern farm technology. Vicious rats gnaw on them as they sleep. They walk miles to buy food at inflated prices. And they carry in water from irrigation pumps.

 * All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded. That dream was born in my youth, it was nurtured in my early days of organizing. It has flourished. It has been attacked.

 * I'm not very different from anyone else who has ever tried to accomplish something with his life. My motivation comes from my personal life, from watching what my mother and father went through when I was growing up, from what we experienced as migrant workers in California. That dream, that vision grew from my own experience with racism, with hope, with a desire to be treated fairly, and to see my people treated as human beings and not as chattel. It grew from anger and rage, emotions I felt 40 years ago when people of my color were denied the right to see a movie or eat at a restaurant in many parts of California. It grew from the frustration and humiliation I felt as a boy who couldn't understand how the growers could abuse and exploit farm workers when there were so many of us and so few of them.

 * I've traveled through every part of this nation. I have met and spoken with thousands of Hispanics from every walk of life, from every social and economic class. And one thing I hear most often from Hispanics, regardless of age or position, and from many non-Hispanics as well, is that the farm workers gave them the hope that they could succeed and the inspiration to work for change.

 * From time to time, you will hear our opponents declare that the union is weak, that the union has no support, that the union has not grown fast enough. Our obituary has been written many times. How ironic it is that the same forces that argue so passionately that the union is not influential are the same forces that continue to fight us so hard.

 * Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost — and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

 * These trends are part of the forces of history that cannot be stopped. No person and no organization can resist them for very long. They are inevitable. 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. Our opponents must understand that it's not just a union we have built. Unions, like other institutions, can come and go. But we're more than an institution. For nearly 20 years, our union has been on the cutting edge of a people's cause — and you cannot do away with an entire people; you cannot stamp out a people's cause.

 * Like the other immigrant groups, the day will come when we win the economic and political rewards which are in keeping with our numbers in society. The day will come when the politicians do the right thing by our people out of political necessity and not out of charity or idealism. That day may not come this year. That day may not come during this decade. But it will come, someday! And when that day comes, we shall see the fulfillment of that passage from the Book of Matthew in the New Testament, "That the last shall be first and the first shall be last." And on that day, our nation shall fulfill its creed — and that fulfillment shall enrich us all.

Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1990)

 * Speech (12 January 1990)

 * Dr. King was a powerful figure of destiny, of courage, of sacrifice, and of vision. Few people in the long history of this nation can rival his accomplishment, his reason, or his selfless dedication to the cause of peace and social justice. Today we honor a wise teacher, an inspiring leader, and a true visionary, but to truly honor Dr. King we must do more than say words of praise. We must learn his lessons and put his views into practice, so that we may truly be free at last.

 * Many people will tell you of his wonderful qualities and his many accomplishments, but what makes him special to me, the truth many people don't want you to remember, is that Dr. king was a great activist, fighting for radical social change with radical methods. While other people talked about change, Dr. King used direct action to challenge the system. He welcomed it, and used it wisely.

 * Dr. King was also radical in his beliefs about violence. He learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence. He once stopped an armed mob, saying: "We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we live by. We must meet hate with love."

 * My friends, as we enter a new decade, it should be clear to all of us that there is an unfinished agenda, that we have miles to go before we reach the promised land. The men who rule this country today never learned the lessons of Dr. King, they never learned that non-violence is the only way to peace and justice. Our nation continues to wage war upon its neighbors, and upon itself.

 * My friends, the time for action is upon us. The enemies of justice wants you to think of Dr. King as only a civil rights leader, but he had a much broader agenda. He was a tireless crusader for the rights of the poor, for an end to the war in Vietnam long before it was popular to take that stand, and for the rights of workers everywhere. Many people find it convenient to forget that Martin was murdered while supporting a desperate strike on that tragic day in Memphis, Tennessee. He died while fighting for the rights of sanitation workers. Dr. King's dedication to the rights of the workers who are so often exploited by the forces of greed has profoundly touched my life and guided my struggle.

 * Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

Quotes about Chávez

 * In college I was an editorial cartoonist for my school paper, The Daily Aztec...I did straight, news-oriented editorial cartoons. Occasionally, my Chicano background snuck in to the toons simply because I might do a César Chavez toon about how the School Student Board was too stupidly racist to allow him to speak on campus or other anti-frat toons on how they were so racist in doing fund-raisers for Tijuana kid charities--dressed in sombreros and begging with tin cups.
 * Lalo Alcaraz, interview in Attitude (2002) by Ted Rall

 * (How has the city changed over the decades?) In the 70's we were so engaged - that's a hard one for me, to try not to discount the losses, to see what is hopeful. I feel a lot of times that we've lost leadership. There's no Cesar Chavez or Robert Kennedy. We've lost the great inspiring role models that gave us ideas about a bigger self. We started to value the celebrity, the person who got his.
 * Judy Baca Interview (2014)

 * The farm-worker movement of the 1960s, led by Cesar Chavez, was perhaps the first nationally known effort by people of color to address an environmental issue.
 * Luke Cole and Sheila Foster From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (2000)

 * racial and ethnic minorities were being environmentally-and economically-exploited in ways that didn't involve incinerators or dumps. Between 1965 and 1971, for example, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, Mexican farmworkers in California launched a historic resistance movement to organize a union not only in the interest of raising wages and improving working conditions but also to combat pesticide abuse, which was notorious for making workers sick.
 * Dina Gilio-Whitaker As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (2019)

 * I was very impressed with Cesar Chavez's grasp of organizing strategy. He started organizing around small fruit to start with, where there was a semipermanent work force. That gave the union continuity. These workers didn't move around to follow the different crops. You didn't start fresh every time there was a strike.
 * Dorothy Ray Healey California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990)

 * Cesar, a priest, a minister, and nine farmworkers were arrested for going into a camp in Borrego Springs, just to get the workers’ clothes after the workers were fired for union activity. They were arrested, stripped naked, and chained by the officers.
 * Dolores Huerta, "The Boycott is Our Major Weapon" (July 15, 1969)

 * There have been incidents of violence against the union, many of them, and it has taken all that Cesar can do and the rest of the people can do to keep workers nonviolent.
 * Dolores Huerta, "The Boycott is Our Major Weapon" (July 15, 1969)

 * The people in the union have to take a tremendous amount of harassment, such as the materials of State Senator Hugh Burns’ Committee on Un-American Activities in California. The man who made up that committee report was sitting in his home in Three Rivers. He never once went to Delano. Yet, he wrote a report which has been used all over the country in which he tried to redbait the members of the union. Among other mistruths, he says 3 years of Cesar Chavez’ life are missing, and suggests he was getting some kind of subversive training. Those are the 3 years he spent in the U.S. Navy. That should be put in the record.
 * Dolores Huerta, "The Boycott is Our Major Weapon" (July 15, 1969)

 * Now when we first tried to get this plan passed, many of the growers were very upset about it. They said you have to go through an insurance company. We are very lucky that César Chávez is a grammar-school dropout and he hasn't been educated to think that insurance is a way of life. He said he wasn't going to give any of his money to an insurance company, any of the workers' money.
 * Dolores Huerta, 1974 speech in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 (1995)

 * Within the next year they are spending millions of dollars to destroy the United Farm Workers. They are spending millions of dollars to tell what a bad administrator César Chávez is. Have you seen these articles in the New York Times and Time magazine? They say César Chávez is a bad administrator. What they really mean is he is the wrong color. And if he were a good administrator.... Can you imagine five clinics, a medical plan, a credit union, a retirement center for farm workers, fantastic increases in wages, the removal of the labor contract system-all of this César did in a few short years. What would he do if he was a good administrator?
 * Dolores Huerta, 1974 speech in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 (1995)

 * Chavez fought illegal immigration tenaciously. In 1969, he marched to the Mexican border to protest farmers' use of illegal aliens as strikebreakers. He was joined by Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Senator Walter Mondale. In the mid 1970s, he conducted the “Illegals Campaign” to identify and report illegal workers, “an effort he deemed second in importance only to the boycott” (of produce from non-unionized farms), according to Pawel. She quotes a memo from Chavez that said, “If we can get the illegals out of California, we will win the strike overnight.” The Illegals Campaign didn't just report illegals to the (unresponsive) federal authorities. Cesar sent his cousin, ex-con Manuel Chavez, down to the border to set up a “wet line” (as in “wetbacks”) to do the job the Border Patrol wasn't being allowed to do. Unlike the Minutemen of a few years ago, who arrived at the border with no more than lawn chairs and binoculars, the United Farm Workers patrols were willing to use direct methods when persuasion failed. Housed in a series of tents along the Arizona border, the crews in the wet line sometimes beat up illegals, the “cesarchavistas” employing violence even more widely on the Mexican side of the border to prevent crossings.
 * |Hail Cesar!, By Mark Krikorian, March 31, 2017, National Review

 * One of the heroic figures of our time.
 * Robert F. Kennedy

 * [L]ate one night in 1962, there was a knock at the door and there were three men. One of them was Cesar Chavez. And the next thing I knew, they were sitting around our table talking about a union...Cesar said, "The women have to be involved. They're the ones working out in the fields with their husbands. If you can take the women out to the fields, you can certainly take them to meetings." So I sat up straight and said to myself, "That's what I want!"
 * Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, American Women Activists' Writings: An Anthology, 1637-2002

 * Our separate struggles are really one. A struggle for freedom, for dignity, and for humanity. ... You and your valiant fellow workers have demonstrated your commitment to righting grievous wrongs forced upon exploited people. We are together with you in spirit and determination that our dreams for a better tomorrow will be realized.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr., in a telegram to Chavez during his first fast. (1968)

 * Forty years ago, here in the United States, there were true activist visionaries and mass movements to enact those visions...There was a César Chávez and a viable farm workers' movement, propped up by the agit-prop of a teatro para un movimiento campesino.
 * Cherríe Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (2011)

 * Many years ago, when I was merely a vegetarian, I met the great Cesar Chavez, and he said to me: "If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products." I was shocked, since I had no intention of eating meat but had never thought of giving up eggs or dairy products. But when I looked into it I realized he was right, and now, years later, after I have studied the matter up close, I know for certain that he was completely correct about the cruel treatment of the animals raised for such products. The advantages of a vegan diet are enormous for our health, for the environment, for the animals themselves.
 * Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (Ballantine Books, 2004), Conclusion, p. 226.

 * The reality is that many businesses, large and small, have long used undocumented workers to pad their bottom lines. Just consider the agricultural workforce. In California alone-where the $45 billion-a-year agricultural sector supplies more than half the produce consumed in the United States-between 40 and 50 percent of the workforce is made up of undocumented workers. No wonder California has been the site of some of the most important immigrant labor struggles, brought to the consciousness of many Americans in the 1960s and 1970s by the great United Farm Workers leader, Cesar Chavez. That struggle continues today.
 * Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)

 * Whether one views the Chicano Student Movement as a political quest or as a nationalist struggle, one cannot subsume its identity under the rubric of "Me, too." Although there were a few connections to African-American civil rights groups, with SNCC veterans Betita Martínez and María Varela bringing their organizing skills and experiences to the Southwest, the Chicano Movement was very much its own entity with its own genesis. However, in U.S. history textbooks, Mexicans are typically relegated to the end of the book and pictured as either followers of Cesar Chávez or student activists emulating African Americans. It was not that they wanted a piece of the "American pie," they wanted the freedom to bake their own pan dulce.
 * Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

 * Activists like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta were also fighting in the 1960s and '70s for Latinx families to have safer environments. Their activism shouldn't have been considered separate from the Earth Day movement, but it was. Not only did their work contribute to the overall movement, but their efforts helped lead to the ban on the use of harmful pesticides that impacted farmworker safety and increased awareness of environmental justice within the Latinx community. However, because of racism, xenophobia (fear of immigrants), and classism, these activists were excluded.
 * Leah Thomas The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (2022)

 * And what about César Chávez in California? What's the history of the campesino and what is he fighting for? These are our people too. And in Texas our brothers and sisters have a struggle. Just what is this all about? What is happening to our people? We feel what is happening, let's learn about it and let's start speaking up. Let's talk to each other and let's not be afraid to be heard.
 * 1969 article in Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

 * Abnormal rates of cancer for farmworkers in California aroused the Chicano community. Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers fasted for thirty-five days in 1988 to call attention to these conditions.
 * Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

 * The name of Cesar Chavez is an important name in the history of American social movements. He was one of the leaders of a new movement among Latino farmworkers in the West-a particularly charismatic and effective leader.
 * Howard Zinn, Truth Has a Power of Its Own (2022)

Elizabeth Martinez, De Colores Means All of Us (1998)

 * It is true that nationwide Black protest really did overshadow Latino protest in the 1960s, so that giving less attention to the latter is appropriate. But the absence of information about protest by other peoples of color is too extreme to be explained away on this basis...A more helpful explanation related to the media-might be that no leaders with the vast, multifaceted, international stature of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X emerged among Latinos (or Asians and Indians). César Chávez came closest.

 * When César died in his sleep at the age of 66 on April 22, 1993, most people in the United States were unaware that his life had set an unsurpassed example of persistent struggle for human rights, day after day, week after week, year after year. Most people would not understand, for example, why César Chávez was compared to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by more than one speaker at the April 29 funeral, including Rep. Ron Dellums, who said: "César stands with the giants of this planet as an advocate of nonviolence as a way to challenge the powerful." Most people shamefully underestimated a heroic figure in the twentieth-century struggle for social justice, and an extraordinary labor leader.

 * As we marched on April 29 through flat, dusty farmland and past almond orchards, we were walking with Chávez' strengths. We walked with someone who fought for 40 years to gain labor rights and human rights for the most disenfranchised and impoverished workers in the United States. Under his leadership, they ceased to be faceless immigrants whom the dominant society dismissed as subhuman, disposable. Never again would the public be so unaware of farmworker poverty and exploitation.

 * César Chávez (pronounced "CHA-vez") died long after the height of the farmworker cause, like the entire Chicano movement, had been forced to spend much energy defending its small gains of the 1960s.

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Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962) was an American poet. Because of the typography used in many of his works it has become a widespread tradition for his name to be presented in lower case as e. e. cummings, though he himself continued to use uppercase letters in signing his own name.

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 * The typography of some of these quotes may seem incorrect: it probably isn't. Outside of some bolding for emphasis of well noted or notable statements, and a few marks of ellipsis "…" for gaps, Cumming's often-odd original typography has been retained, so much as possible, in many of the quotes, including where punctuation marks between words are often used without any spaces.

 * who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky—filled with pretty people?
 * Quoted by David Niven as epigraph, The Moon's a Balloon (1971)

 * Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
 * The Enormous Room (1922)

 * All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
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 * Tulips and Chimneys (1923) "in Just-"

 * So, ungentle reader, (as you and I value what we should ashamed—after witnessing a few minor circus-marvels—to call our "lives,") let us never be fooled into taking seriously that perfectly superficial distinction which is vulgarly drawn between the circus-show and "art" or "the arts." Let us not forget that every authentic "work of art" is in and of itself alive and that, however "the arts" may differ among themselves, their common function is the expression of that supreme alive-ness which is known as "beauty." This being so, our three ring circus is art—for to contend that the spectacle in question is not an authentic manifestation of "beauty" is as childish, as to dismiss the circus on the ground that it is "childish," is idiotic.
 * "The Adult, the Artist and the Circus." Vanity Fair (October 1925)

 * the only man woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors “is dead” beautiful Warren Gamaliel Harding “is” dead he's “dead”
 * W [ViVa] (1931) XVII

 * somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence. in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose  or if it be your wish to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly as the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;  nothing we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries rendering death and forever with each breathing
 * W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

 * (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
 * W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

 * My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?— No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
 * EIMI (1933)

 * I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
 * Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22

 * Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things. "Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
 * "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

 * Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.
 * "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

 * Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable. In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn't matter a very good God damn...
 * "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

 * Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe. That's not an answer. There isn't any answer. How long hasn't there been any answer? As long as I can remember. And how long have you written? As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I.
 * "Forward to an Exhibit: II" (1945)

 * Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course—you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour.  In other words, you don't want to be serious— It takes two to be serious.
 * "Forward to an Exhibit: II" (1945)

 * when you confuse art with propaganda,you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you(or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom". You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny... all over this socalled world,hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.
 * Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

 * There are still a few erect human beings in the socalled world. Proudly and humbly,I say to these human beings: "O my fellow citizens,many an honest man believes a lie. Though you are as honest as the day, fear and hate the liar. Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated:now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated:in yourselves. "Do not hate and fear the artist in yourselves,my fellow citizens. Honour him and love him. Love him truly— do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. "Only the artist in yourselves is more truthful than the night."
 * Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

 * Life,for eternal us,is now
 * Introduction to Poems 1924-1954

 * Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
 * "being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)

 * milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and  may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone  for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
 * "maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962

 * all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again
 * Collected Poems (1963), p. 65

 * that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
 * "of all the blessings which to man" in Complete Poems II (1968), p. 544

is 5 (1926)

 * There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort— things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them— are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.
 * Foreword

 * a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
 * One XXVIII

 * wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world   my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom
 * Four VII

 * life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
 * Four VII

Him (1927)

 * Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous . . .  And they talk of dying! The blood delicately descending and ascending: making an arm. Being an arm. The warm flesh, the dim slender flesh filled with life, slenderer than a miracle, frailer . . . These are the shoulders through which fell the world. The dangerous shoulders of Eve, in god's entire garden newly strolling.

 * A distinct throat. Which breathes. A head: small, smaller than a flower. With eyes and with lips. Lips more slender than light; a smile how carefully and slowly made, a smile made entirely of dream. Eyes deeper than Spring. Eyes darker than Spring, more new . . . These, these are the further miracles . . . the breasts. Thighs. The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!

 * It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

50 Poems (1940)

 * ye!the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned
 * 13

 * Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain... all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep
 * 29

 * my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height
 * 34

 * and nothing quite so least as truth —i say though hate were why men breathe— because my father lived his soul love is the whole and more than all
 * 34

 * love is the every only god
 * 38

 * love is more thicker than forget ...it is more sane and sunly and more it cannot die  than all the sky which only is higher than the sky
 * 42

 * measureless our pure living complete love whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow
 * 50

 * on forever's very now we stand
 * 50

1 x 1 (1944)

 * also known as One Times One

 * a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man
 * X

 * plato told him:he couldn't believe it(jesus told him;he wouldn't believe itlao  tsze certainly told him,and general (yes  mam) sherman; and even (believe it or  not)you told him:i told him;we told him (he didn't believe it,no  sir)
 * XIII : plato told

 * pity this busy monster, manunkind,   not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond)  plays with the bigness of his littleness
 * XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind

 * We doctors know   a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go
 * XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind

 * —when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
 * XX

 * what if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of it's grave and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
 * XX

 * no sunbeam ever lies
 * XXX

 * true wars are never won
 * XXX

 * 'and liars kill their kind but' her,my 'love creates love only' our
 * XXXII

 * nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined, therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes
 * XXXIV

 * true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who;
 * XXXVI

 * yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason
 * XXXVIII

 * —tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now
 * XXXIX

 * nothing except the impossible shall occur
 * XLII

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)

 * First published as the Foreword to a collection of Krazy Kat comic strips (1946), later published in A Miscellany Revised (1965)

 * What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

 * A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.

 * If you're a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society's socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But if—whisper it—you're a 100% hidebound reactionary, the foot's in the other shoe. Ignatz Mouse then stands forth as a hero, pluckily struggling to keep the flag of free will flying; while Offissa Pupp assumes the monstrous mien of a Goliath, satanically bullying a tiny but indomitable David. Well, let's flip the coin—so: and lo! Offissa Pupp comes up. That makes Ignatz Mouse "tails." Now we have a hero whose heart has gone to his head and a villain whose head has gone to his heart.

 * This hero and villain no more understand Krazy Kat than the mythical denizens of a two dimensional realm understand some three dimensional intruder. The world of Offissa Pupp and Ignatz Mouse is a knowledgeable power-world, in terms of which our unknowledgeable heroine is powerlessness personified. The sensical law of this world is might makes right; the nonsensical law of our heroine is love conquers all. To put the oak in the acorn: Ignatz Mouse and Offissa Pupp (each completely convinced that his own particular brand of might makes right) are simple-minded—Krazy isn't—therefore, to Offissa Pupp and Ignatz Mouse, Krazy is. But if both our hero and our villain don't and can't understand our heroine, each of them can and each of them does misunderstand her differently. To our softhearted altruist, she is the adorably helpless incarnation of saintliness. To our hardhearted egoist, she is the puzzlingly indestructible embodiment of idiocy. The benevolent overdog sees her as an inspired weakling. The malevolent undermouse views her as a born target. Meanwhile Krazy Kat, through this double misunderstanding, fulfills her joyous destiny.

XAIPE (1950)

 * out of the mountain of his soul comes a keen pure silence
 * 19

 * blossoming are people... all the earth has turned to sky ...and i am you are i am we
 * 32

 * i feel that(false and true are merely to know) Love only has ever been,is,and will ever be,So
 * 33

 * i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes
 * 65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".

 * i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay great happening illimitably earth
 * 65

 * how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any — lifted from the no of all nothing —  human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
 * 65

 * now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened
 * 65

 * —the great my darling happens to be that love are in we, that love are in we
 * 66

 * completely dare be beautiful
 * 68

 * more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before— and shining this our now must come to then
 * 69

i : six nonlectures (1953)

 * poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality....poetry is being, not doing....if poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about selfstyled obligations and duties and responsibilities . . .
 * "i & their son: Nonlecture Two"

 * The one...thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic period's credo) was what the poem said; it's socalled meaning ... Thus it will be seen that, by the year 1900, one growing American boy had reached exactly that stage of "intellectual development" beyond which every ungrowing Marxist adult of today is strictly forbidden ... ever to pass.
 * "i & you & is: Nonlecture Four"

 * concerning this selfstyled world's greatest and most generous literary figure: who had just arrived in our nation's capitol, attired in half a GI uniform and ready to be hanged as a traitor by the only country which ever made even a pretense of fighting for freedom of speech Re Ezra Pound — poetry happens to be an art;and artists happen to be human beings.
 * Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)

 * An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction,superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world,nor does he live in some so-called universe,nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any number of "universes." As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
 * Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)

 * Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself — whoever himself may be — is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
 * Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)

95 poems (1958)

 * the courage to receive time's mightiest dream
 * 3

 *  no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love  —human one mortally immortal i can turn immense all time's because to why
 * 7

 * though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain) will only smile
 * 72

 * seeming's enough for slaves of space and time —ours is the now and here of freedom.   Come
 * 73

 * Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all)
 * 78

 * a million thousand hundred nothings seem —we are himself's own self;his very him
 * 84

 * exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel
 * 89

 * dreamtree,truthtree tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,all when may not measure a now of your treasure
 * 90

 * each ignorant gladness —unteaches what despair preaches
 * 90

 * unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home
 * 91

 * lovers alone wear sunlight
 * 91

 * The whole truth... sings only —and all lovers are the song
 * 91

 * it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
 * 92

A Poet's Advice (1958)

 * "A Poet's Advice to Students" in E. E. Cummings, a Miscellany: A Miscellany (1958), edited by George James Firmage, p. 13

 * Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel ... the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

 * nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.

 * my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.  Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.
 * —E. E. Cummings

73 poems (1963)

 * seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here
 * 3

 * it's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until: ...love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)
 * 4

 * it's so damn sweet when Anybody— ...makes you feel ...for once (imag -ine) You
 * 7

 * because it's    Spring thingS   dare to do people
 * 10

 * a great man is gone. Tall as the truth was who; and wore his ... life like a  ... sky.
 * 14

 * they flock and they flee through the thunder of seem though the stars in their silence say Be.
 * 29

 * the cunning the craven ... they live for until though the sun in his heaven says Now
 * 29

 * they work and they pray and they bow to a must though the earth in her splendor says May
 * 29

 * without any doubt he was whatever(first and last)  most people fear most:  a mystery for which iv'e no word except alive
 * 30

 * Mostpeople have been heard screaming for international measures that render hell rational  —i thank heaven somebody's crazy enough to give me a daisy
 * 30

 * we sans love equals mob
 * 31

 * unbeingdead isn't beingalive
 * 31

 * all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence
 * 32

 * hugest whole creation may be less incalculable than a single kiss
 * 37

 * now I lay me down to dream of(nothing i or any somebody or you can begin to begin to imagine) something which nobody may keep.
 * 44

 * the axis of the universe —love
 * 73

Quotes about Cummings

 * cummings was doing the same thing: getting into words, rolling around in them. As a child, I used to charm myself with words.
 * 1978 interview in Conversations with Audre Lorde (2004)

 * I admire E.E. Cummings's musicality, less for his visual-only poems, not at all for his occasional anti-Semitism.
 * Marge Piercy interview in My Life, My Body (2015)

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Talk:List of films

Spaceballs
There are some Spaceballs quotes on Wikipedia. Maybe they should be moved off that page to Wikiquote, with links from one to the other? - fagan

Unquotable quotes
I find that a lot of the films have many quotes which either aren't particularly quotable, or mean nothing out of context, see The Matrix for an example. Boffy b 12:46, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

 * The delight of many of the memorable lines does lie in knowing their context, and quoting them would usually occur between people who are familiar with the context.

 * "There is no spoon," or "Dodge This!" are certainly rather mundane lines… not all that striking or notable of themselves, but they become forever memorable to anyone who has seen the movie The Matrix.

 * "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is apparently a single word of nonsense; of no plainly apparent meaning at all… and yet to someone who has seen the movie Mary Poppins, it can be said that it evokes a rich willingness to put up with, transcend, and even enjoy a great deal of apparent nonsense, and to exuberantly appreciate the magic of life. "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."

 * Those familiar with the context of things can usually delight in them far more than those who are not, and yet when there are oddly emphasized statements that are unfamiliar, one's curiosity can be aroused as to what that context is, and generate interest in finding out.

 * With movies and with others stories many particular lines become memorable because of their context more than anything else, and those who love the stories often delight in reminding each other of the context.

 * Often lines have far greater context than most people originally discern, and being reminded of them in such discussions one can sometimes begin to see the greater context of things. When one of the heroes of the matrix says to one of the villains… "Believe it or not… your still going to burn!" it has context far beyond that of the immediate situation of two individuals in conflict. It is an evocation of the forms of faith that assert that those who do evil and treat others as if they were worthless are going to face extreme consequences for it, whether they believe it or not.

 * Anything that promotes an awareness that everyone no matter how obscure has significance and can sometimes matter immensely to the progress of the entire world is a good thing… and any path that promotes the treating of anyone as if they and their feelings were absolutely worthless is as close to a manifestation of evil as many can come to clearly understand. That's why I for one have long loved Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and am very pleased with the movie adaptations. They do not so perfectly express these ideas as the books do… but they at least make a far wider audience familiar with them.

 * I personally am inclined to tolerate a quite a bit of dross to insure that some true gems of thought and expression are not discarded or ignored. Yet, I am not entirely reluctant to call it dross when that is what it seems to me. I really don't think there is too much dross in The Matrix movie or quotes (though I feel there certainly was a lot of it in the later movies, especially the last). - Moby 16:50, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Sorting with or without articles
There is a de facto difference of opinion of contributors as to whether to sort these film titles with or without considering the articles. Standard English sorting practice is to ignore them, but some lists (at least in Wikipedia) are beginning to treat them as significant (mostly those that have many foreign-word entries, which increases the number of articles — and confusion — by an order of magnitude). I have just resorted the list based on standard English principles (adapted to include foreign-language articles like les [French: the]), but perhaps this should be discussed. Anybody have opinions on which way we should go, and why? — Jeff Q 12:33, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * My personal take is to have articles be moved to the end; ex. Beautiful Mind, A -- Fog of War, The.   It's easier on the eyes, I've noticed the People list is doing it, so it only makes sense we should too; while I agree we should be consistent in our formats between wikipedia and so, but we should do what's right, and if you look at 'pedias list of films you'll notice they are on our current format, but on IMDb Beautiful Mind, A is just that - who's style is simpler on the eyes?  I volunteer to convert the current list to the new format if need be.  RoboAction 06:01, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * IMDb is curious in that its article titles also have the article-last structure, whereas Wikidom seems to favor unrearranged titles. But article-last certainly makes it easier to sort lists, so it makes sense here. Considering the underwhelming interest thus far, I'd say be bold, make the change, and see if anyone complains. I've posted a similar suggestion on the Television shows list talk page, too, and will execute it there if no one objects. — Jeff Q 06:24, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Format style

 * Currently wikiquote community has not established a layout-format to be used for Films. If you would like to join the disucssion check out Wikiquote talk:Templates.  You'll be able give your 2 cents and positively contribute to wikiquote.  [Notice:] if you want to begin a NEW ARTICLE see if a certain format is to be used; ex. see: Schindler's List -- The Fog of War -- Unforgiven -- Taxi Driver for an idea RoboAction 00:59, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The four pages mentioned above only present one particular set of formatting principles used, not coincidentally, by RoboAction. I would suggest that any new page editors instead review the more robust set of examples listed in the Film & TV Shows discussion mentioned above. It includes a list of TV and film pages with several formats contributed by many editors, including RoboAction, Kalki, Jeandré, myself, and others, as well as many anonymous users. — Jeff Q 10:09, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you Jeff Q for the note on my error; I do not want to impose a unilateral format. I believe that a variety of views and opinions will eventually create better material.
 * Do see what I mean at my sandbox, I am looking forward for inputs - PEACE - RoboAction 00:08, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Just checked out your sandbox, RoboAction. I don't think your formatting will suffice for some of the lengthier quote pages we already have, but it looks excellent for most other current ones. I've left specific comments on its discussion page. — Jeff Q 00:45, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This list should be deleted
Why does this list exist when all of the film articles are in Category:Films anyway? There could be a List of requested films for articles that don't exist yet, and the films that do exist should all be categorized. How often (and how) does somebody find the articles in the category but not on this list? Having two places where the same information is listed is pointless and leads to confusion. This list should be deleted. 64.62.166.247 01:31, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * This list existed long before Categories became de rigueur with the MediaWiki 1.3 upgrade. But you raise a good point. We should probably only have only place for a list of films, and should change the Main page and other links to to go there. — Jeff Q

 * I take back my earlier statement. After looking at the Categories:Films page (which I don't know how to create a working link to for index pages like the Main page), I realized that its format is more maintenance-oriented than encyclopedic. Furthermore, the fact that its content is automatically generated is excellent for collecting existing pages, but lousy for creating new ones in the manner usually recommended in Wikidom. I'd say that, until the Category system matures, we leave things as they are. — Jeff Q 04:10, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm just back from watching a movie at the theatre, and I agree that though Categories are definitely going to be useful, they are not yet fully developed. I myself am still a bit confused about some issues in using them, and as yet have few definite ideas on how they should be organized. RoboAction and LGagnon seem are very actively contributing Category labels to existing pages, but I am at the point where I'm just starting to remember to use them when I create a page. The problem of setting up a link to them other than through the automatic links at the bottom of a page is something that I have encountered, and it seems that various manually created list pages will still be useful or necessary for some time to come. ~ Kalki 04:54, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Excessive red links
There seems to be an increasing trend for people to add titles to this page and to Television shows without ever bothering to create articles for the titles. Anyone can do the former; Wikiquote needs people to do the latter. It takes virtually no effort to add a title to this page once one has compiled enough quotes to create a decent article for a film.

Unless people strenuously object, I am planning to remove ALL of the titles without existing articles on Saturday (18 December). There is no advantage to having them sitting there and obscuring the useful links. — Jeff Q 06:54, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with your request - ALL red links should be removed - but maybe we can cut and paste them to a different location (etc.[ List of films/needed ]). PEACE ~ RoboAction 21:33, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't know what to do about these. If someone takes the trouble to add them, does it really mean that they're requesting these movies? You'd think so, but I'm skeptical about the motives of someone who adds dozens at a time. Are they just asking someone else to do all the real work? If so, I'd hope to encourage them to contribute material instead. Also, where should one put such a list? Request-type pages in Wikipedia typically go into a special namespace, to avoid looking like they're part of the main reference work, but that's more overhead than Wikiquote seems to have yet. But it does seem reasonable to post requested pages somewhere. If I do the removal, I'll put the "requested" titles where RoboAction suggests or some other logical place, so we won't lose them. (It can always be changed later.) Anyone else have suggestions? — Jeff Q 23:53, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I have been thinking of making a similar page listing of names for people: but anticipating casual vandalism of so many red links, I think it best that such lists NOT become or remain active lists, and a notice put at the top some minimal standards expected of new pages, including at least a quotation: some people are not even putting these in, perhaps not realizing that all the article pages are made for quotes, not for information about people or works, like the Wikipedia is. ~ Kalki 02:33, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I have been in another rather busy spell lately, and not always checking in here as often as normally like to, but in reference to my previous comment: I have been collecting up name lists of famous people, from various sources, and might be ready to post somethng in the next day or two as a starter. I intend it to be simply a list of candidates for inclusion though, to spark interest in people who might wish to collect up quotes of various people. The header of such pages should include recommendations that no one make any name an active link, until they actually have material ready for a page. Similar lists could be made for films, and TV shows. I think literary works should remain primarily as sections within authors pages though, unless they become especially large, and no such prior list created for them. ~ Kalki 04:51, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I've imported all the dead end - Red links to List of films/requested. I think we need more information for users on how to create articles, as in, examples they can see as to what an article may look like when finished, expectations.  ~ RoboAction 20:05, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Merger with List of films/requested
I am proposing to merge List of films/requested into List of films by creating a separate "Requested" section below the main list. (See Television shows for an example of what the result would look like.) For readers, this would make it easier to notice when a film is already in the list, helping to avoid duplication between the two lists. For editors, this would make it easier to move titles between the live-article list and the to-be-created-articles list. If no one has any objections to this plan, I will execute it sometime after 24 April. — Jeff Q (talk) 00:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have now merged the former List of films/requested into the main list, as promised. As I expect that we will delete the "requested" article, it may be a good idea (or even necessary, under some interpretations of the GFDL) to include the edit history of that article, which contributed so much material of current list. So here it is:

 * (cur) (last) 00:06, 27 Apr 2005 Jeffq (Posted notice that this list is superceded by List of films#Requested section.)
 * (cur) (last) 18:19, 22 Apr 2005 194.192.22.33 (→S)
 * (cur) (last) 04:03, 21 Apr 2005 Skizzler (→D)
 * (cur) (last) 17:18, 19 Apr 2005 Jeffq m (Fmt'd "Weird Science"; moved "Sixteen Candles".)
 * (cur) (last) 12:30, 19 Apr 2005 206.78.165.5 (→K)
 * (cur) (last) 12:29, 19 Apr 2005 206.78.165.5 (→T)
 * (cur) (last) 12:27, 19 Apr 2005 206.78.165.5 (→W)
 * (cur) (last) 16:32, 16 Apr 2005 69.140.181.232 (→A)
 * (cur) (last) 10:04, 13 Apr 2005 68.218.195.235 (→M)
 * (cur) (last) 20:09, 10 Apr 2005 Jeffq (Moved Blazing Saddles, The Care Bears Movie to main list; added The Guru.)
 * (cur) (last) 11:00, 6 Apr 2005 Slgrandson (→C - (One of my favourites from the 80's...so CUTE!))
 * (cur) (last) 23:15, 5 Apr 2005 Jeffq (Moved to main list: Magnificent Seven, When Harry Met Sally)
 * (cur) (last) 23:07, 5 Apr 2005 Jeffq (Removed "24" (it's much better known as a TV show).)
 * (cur) (last) 02:33, 31 Mar 2005 69.156.147.7 (→0-9)
 * (cur) (last) 17:58, 26 Mar 2005 RPickman (→M)
 * (cur) (last) 23:20, 24 Mar 2005 Jeffq (Moved to main list: 50 First Dates, Conspiracy Theory, Daredevil.)
 * (cur) (last) 13:09, 24 Mar 2005 RPickman (→D)
 * (cur) (last) 23:33, 12 Mar 2005 Jeffq (→B - Moved Black Hawk Down to main list.)
 * (cur) (last) 08:36, 4 Mar 2005 Jeffq (+Dreamers; typo fix.)
 * (cur) (last) 20:42, 27 Feb 2005 24.16.236.171 (→H - added hitch)
 * (cur) (last) 03:05, 21 Feb 2005 Jeffq (Moved Network, Punisher to main list.)
 * (cur) (last) 00:30, 20 Feb 2005 172.192.53.15 (→N)
 * (cur) (last) 15:33, 14 Feb 2005 67.85.86.175 (→B)
 * (cur) (last) 17:24, 13 Feb 2005 198.124.234.99
 * (cur) (last) 17:22, 13 Feb 2005 198.124.234.99
 * (cur) (last) 04:09, 13 Feb 2005 Jeffq (→H - Removed both Grinches.)
 * (cur) (last) 02:58, 13 Feb 2005 Jeffq (+Grinch 1966. -Devil's Advocate. More title fixes. Standardized bullet spacing.)
 * (cur) (last) 02:37, 13 Feb 2005 Jeffq (→A - +Adv of Superman; fixed some titles)
 * (cur) (last) 00:16, 13 Feb 2005 65.26.233.252 (→P - added 1)
 * (cur) (last) 09:45, 12 Feb 2005 Jeffq (→E - +Eating Raoul)
 * (cur) (last) 20:32, 6 Feb 2005 Jeffq (→X - -X-Men 2)
 * (cur) (last) 20:31, 6 Feb 2005 Jeffq (Added "List of films" link for easier moving.)
 * (cur) (last) 20:03, 6 Feb 2005 RPickman (→X)
 * (cur) (last) 19:15, 6 Feb 2005 213.202.159.24 (→T)
 * (cur) (last) 16:32, 5 Feb 2005 65.26.233.252 (→B - added 1)
 * (cur) (last) 06:37, 30 Jan 2005 202.138.112.243 (→G)
 * (cur) (last) 09:10, 28 Jan 2005 Jeffq (→S - -Shall We Dance (now in main list))
 * (cur) (last) 17:42, 25 Jan 2005 209.158.202.162 (→S)
 * (cur) (last) 17:41, 25 Jan 2005 209.158.202.162 (→T)
 * (cur) (last) 17:37, 25 Jan 2005 209.158.202.162 (→T)
 * (cur) (last) 19:54, 23 Jan 2005 Jeffq (Removed titles w/ created articles.)
 * (cur) (last) 00:27, 22 Jan 2005 Clouds Raven (→E)
 * (cur) (last) 23:08, 18 Jan 2005 24.26.101.247 (→A)
 * (cur) (last) 09:52, 10 Jan 2005 Jeffq m (Link spelling fix.)
 * (cur) (last) 22:16, 9 Jan 2005 65.184.240.25 (→A)
 * (cur) (last) 18:59, 9 Jan 2005 RoboAction m (→A - remove Alien, after User:84.128.0.21 expanded it)
 * (cur) (last) 18:57, 9 Jan 2005 RoboAction m (→T - remove True Grit after being expanded by User:RPickman)
 * (cur) (last) 18:55, 9 Jan 2005 RoboAction m (→W - move * Wall Street to List of films)
 * (cur) (last) 03:44, 5 Jan 2005 RoboAction m (→0-9 - remove 13th Warrior N add to List of films)
 * (cur) (last) 01:36, 2 Jan 2005 RoboAction m (minor change to header + move quoted movies & add unquoted...)
 * (cur) (last) 16:35, 1 Jan 2005 RPickman (→N -added 1)
 * (cur) (last) 16:34, 1 Jan 2005 RPickman (→C -added 1)
 * (cur) (last) 22:50, 31 Dec 2004 RPickman m (→T -1 added)
 * (cur) (last) 15:46, 21 Dec 2004 RoboAction (moved from the Talk page, ooops)

— Jeff Q (talk) 04:19, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Creating new pages -- discussion and vote notice
Many people are having problems creating a new page. There has been some progress in this area (some FAQs posted with various tricks, help page failure allows starting a page with one click, etc.), but virtually no documentation regarding it. Input box is a new mediawiki feature intended to make article creation more streamlined, as well as helping create correctly boiler-plated articles. I have started a discussion, and a vote, at Help talk:Starting a new page, and I urge everyone interested to join it. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:47, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Reorganizing film sequels
I propose splitting up the film "series" pages and giving each film its own page. Aside from the fact that this is standard practise for indexing films, consider the fact that not every film in a series is written or directed by the same person. This might seem like a long and tedious task, but many of these pages need heavy editing and formatting anyway. ~ Juxtaposed 20:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Notes section
I notice in the intro text, there's an instruction to read a Notes section (complete with anchor link) before adding something. However, this isn't any Notes section on the page. Nothing in the page history has an edit summary of "Removed notes section" (but then, why would it?), so it isn't easy to see when it was removed (if it existed at all). Does anyone happen to know when the section existed so that it can be restored, or should we work out a new set of notes to add? —LrdChaos 20:55, 1 April 1006 (UTC)

25 Thousand Tents
This documentary explores the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their struggle to survive and return to their homeland Palestine. It documents the lives of Palestinians currently stranded in Al-Tanaf detention camp in no man's land between the Iraqi-Syrian borders. It explores the lives of Palestinians who first found refuge in Iraq following the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the expulsion of its people in 1948. Following the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, they have been forced to flee and find refuge elsewhere once again. This film gives voice to the suffering and heroism of Palestinians as they tell of personal experiences, the hardships they endure, what led them to flee Iraq, as well as their aspirations and hopes for the future.

Cast

Producer ,Written and Directed by: Samer Salameh Ala'a Alsadi

Assistant Director: Abed Alnaji

Editing: Ala'a Alsadi

Photography: Samer Salameh

Mixage: Mnar

Comment: Mnsoor Alslte

Commentary extracts from “In The Presence of Absence” by Mahmoud Darwish

Interviewer: Khayria Zubaydi Maya Helwani

Subtitles : Omar Almane

THE FILM LINK: http://vimeo.com/alaaalsadi

hi there

can you tell me the name of the english movie which is based on badminton,

as far as i remember the boy is in the movie is vey good in badminton and he meets a girl who is also interested in playing badminton buut her team is not able to win any match

so the boy decides to help the girl by actually dressing up like on and so he helps the girl win the tournament

can you please help me find the name of this movie

blunder
hide and seek is listed srry. Hobblez23 15:13, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Kick-Ass
Somebody Should Put Up Quotes From The Movie Kick-Ass & (soon 2 b Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall)

Quotes
I don't know what I'm doing here. I should be listening in class.

Split this page?
This is a pretty big page, and it is only going to get bigger year after year. I would split it now, into three or four subpages. Does anyone agree/disagree? BD2412 T 21:34, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no objections to such plans, but the structure of the divisions might be debated — and whether the suggestions should be on pages with the listings of developed pages, or on separate pages. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:05, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I would just divide it into alphabetical sections, probably A-H, I-P, and Q-Z. Since the requests are sorted alphabetically just like the existing entries, I would keep sections for requested titles on the same alphabetical page as the corresponding existing titles. BD2412 T 23:07, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Since the previous split was done without further discussion, I have rearranged it per my proposal. As noted in the page moves, it makes more sense to have shorter lists but keep existing and requested on the same page, so additions can easily be moved and duplicates can easily be seen. BD2412 T 13:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

highest grossing Bollywood movies 2018
Bollywood is very fashionable and glorious industry Here every day fashion has change also Bollywood movies is very popular in all over the world. Last year most awaiting Tollywood movie Bahubali 2 had released and this movie were top Indian movie of 2017, Also this movie reached 1500 cr. Last month of 2017 Tiger Jinda Hai movie has released and this movie also reached top three list of Top Indian movie of 2017. Also this film become highest grossing Bollywood movie of 2018. Now 2018 is running and some Bollywood movies already has been released and some most movies is ready to release. In this year Padmaavat, Padman and Sonu ki Tinu ki Sweety perform very well. Fans like the most of these films but some films could not impress to movie fans. Here is some list of highest grossing Bollywood movie 2018 :- 1- Padmaavat	Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	190	300.92* 2- Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety	Kartik Aaryan, Nusrat Bharucha, Sunny Singh	Luv Ranjan	20	105.35* 3- Raid	Ajay Devgn, Ileana, Saurabh Shukla	Rajkumar Gupta	35	81.95* 4- Padman	Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Radhika Apte	R Balki	20	81.61 5- Pari	Anushka Sharma	Prosit Roy	2041.01	25 6- Hate Story 4	Urvashi Rautela	vishal Pandya	18	21 7- Aiyaary	Sidharth Malhotra, Rakul Preet, Manoj Bajpayee	Neeraj Pandey	25	18 8- Hichki	Rani Mukherji	Siddharth Malhotra	12-15	17.75* 9- 1921	Zareen Khan, Karan Kundra	Vikram Bhatt	--	15.92 10- Mukkabaaz	Vineet Singh, Zoya Hussain	Anurag Kashyap	--	9.85 Source

Categorization and alphabet
Is there some specific reason why this list is categorized as or is it just remains of some oddity that should be fixed? In Category:Lists, all the alphabetic sublists like List of films (A–C) are nice and comfy under F. (I'd be bold and fix it but right now I'm just studying the structure of en.wq as a potential template for developing et.wq, trying to find out what makes sense and what doesn't, so I prefer to be cautious.) --Ehitaja (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

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