Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

#1. In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

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#2. Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

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#3. I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

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#4. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

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#5. The prophecy is here: When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world, but something better.

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#6. For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

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#7. We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

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#8. The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

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#9. The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

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#10. The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.

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#11. Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

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#12. In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

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#13. We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.

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#14. We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

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#15. In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

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#16. But I'll tell you more about that later ... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.

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#17. In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

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#18. In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

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#19. In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

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#20. We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

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#21. Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

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