Cesar Chavez Quotes

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

The road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

The purpose exceeds the pain.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

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

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

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

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

To the stars through thorns.

The struggle is my life.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

The more I'm persecuted, the stronger I get.

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.