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Emiliano Zapata
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“¡Tierra y Libertad!”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A slogan popularized by Zapata, quoted in Tierra y Libertad (1920) published by Imprenta Germinal; further attributed to Zapata in works in the 1930s and later, including, Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatis…
“I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Heroes of Mexico (1969) by Morris Rosenblum, p. 112
“Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe (1979) by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, p. 281; this is sometimes misattributed to the more modern revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to "La Pasi…
“La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the…
“Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks in regard to Pancho Villa, as quoted in The Unknown Lore of Amexem's Indigenous People : An Aboriginal Treatise (2008) by Noble Timothy Myers-El, p. 158