Cesar Chavez Quotes

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

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!

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.

You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

I don't want nobody getting on my brother. So that's how I take it. If I got to be the one that goes first, oh, well, let it be.

It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That's Wonder Woman to me.

Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.