Emiliano Quotes

#1. One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Emiliano Zapata

#2. We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Emiliano Zapata

#3. If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

Emiliano Zapata

#4. I just don't know where to go from here, Alex."
"You don't have to, we can trace our map together.

Emiliano Campuzano

#5. The land belongs to the people who work it,

Emiliano Zapata

#6. I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

Emiliano Zapata

#7. The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...

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#8. Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.

Emiliano Campuzano

#9. I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that it's not difficult to love Mexico.

Emiliano Salinas

#10. I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees

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#11. The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.

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#12. I knew I couldn't let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.

Emiliano Campuzano

#13. It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.

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#14. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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#15. I learned that love can come twice in a lifetime, and, with the time, even thrice.

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#16. I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.

Emiliano Salinas

#17. I realised I really didn't know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the cars and the people, in the middle of the streets and far away, in the secrets she so jealously kept.
I felt it. We were ever so close, ever so far.

Emiliano Campuzano

#18. It's better to die standing than live on your knees.

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#19. Unfinished promises are the one thing we'll always have to live with.

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#20. I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

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#21. I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

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#22. Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Emiliano Salinas

#23. The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

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#24. Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

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#25. I want to die as a slave to principles, not to men.

Emiliano Zapata

#26. It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!

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#27. I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.

Emiliano Salinas

#28. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees

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#29. Let's think about Mexican streets: they're unsafe because of violence, so people stay at home. Does that make streets more or less safe? Less safe! So streets become more desolate and unsafe, so we stay home more - which makes streets even more desolate and unsafe, and we stay home even more.

Emiliano Salinas

#30. But I'm not wearing the appropriate clothes for the occasion.
"You're always more than appropriate.

Emiliano Campuzano