Cesar Chavez Quotes

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Better to suffer than to die.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

No Victory Without Suffering

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.