Cesar Chavez Quotes

Survival is triumph enough.

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.