Dennis Chavez Quotes

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

Dennis Chavez

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...

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...

Dennis Chavez

Tags: constitution, battle, die

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Dionisio "Dennis" Chávez (April 8, 1888 – November 18, 1962) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1935, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962. He was the first Hispanic to be elected to a full term in the US Senate and the first US Senator to be born in New Mexico, which was still a US territory at the time of his birth.

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...

Dennis Chavez

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...

Dennis Chavez

Tags: silent, down, may

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

Dennis Chavez

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

Dennis Chavez

Tags: man, voice, individual