Cesar Chavez Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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 hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

• 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.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Happy Life, Animal

  "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals". Book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, October 31, 2003.

• Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Brother, Children, Mean

• I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

• Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jesus, Brother, Sacrifice

• The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Progress

• When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Needs

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.351, Penguin

• 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.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Struggle, Order

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.64, Penguin

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

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Winning, Order

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.65, Penguin

• When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving life do we find life, that the truest act courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others, God help us to be men.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

• When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Believe, Fall

• it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

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