Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

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• We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.
• In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We…
• 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…
• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During…
• All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth…
• We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.
• The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has…
• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense…
• Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
• We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
• We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.
• 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…
• In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
• Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
• 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…

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