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Emma Tenayuca
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“El Espanol que yo hablaba era un Espanol que los Conquistadores trajeron aqui, verdad, porque era “vide por vi; ansina por asi”, and when I went to school and started to learn Spanish, I had an awful time, because some of these teachers were not from the city or from Texas. They were from the east, you see. And they’d tell me, “Senorita, usted no sabe hablar el Espanol, verdad?” And they mixed it up with this Texas-Mex and that sort of thing.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It wasn’t until the ‘30s that Spanish began to be taught in the schools – in the high schools. And there was a woman by the name of Esther Caravajal who wrote one of the first text books for the teaching of Spanish in the schools here.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What really kept us (our neighborhood) together was the church – St. Agnes.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember this – we didn’t have radios, we didn’t have this, we didn’t have that, we didn’t have a lot of things. So, this going to the plaza and just listening...(to people) speak to a crowd”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember, at that time here, ’24, the Palmer raids, the Ku Klux Klan”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Klan was very, very strong here, particularly on this side of town.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 1929, the Wall Street crash; in 1932, the closing of all the banks... My grandfather lost some money in one of them, and he didn’t tell anybody. The person he told, I mean...he came over to me and told me, he says, “I’ve lost everything I have.” And he was already about, I guess, 65, close to 70. So, I don’t know, I felt that had an awful effect on me.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I felt at first that I was more of an anarchist than anything else. And this came from the anarchist movement here;...The Magonistas, at one time, had about...I think they had about thirty or forty papers throughout south Texas, yes. And I remember the Wobblies, too. I know Mother Flor and Mother Jones were from here, from what I have read, so they work. Then you had some labor unions here. Not too many, but you did have railroad workers; and at that time, there were quite a number of railroad workers; and at that time, there were quite a number of railroad workers who were Mexicans.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had become very, very interested in the labor movement. I mean, I had...first there were the anarchistas and so forth. And then you had, also, the influence in the CTM [Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico].”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s only recently that I have been able to talk about some of the things that I saw here. I mean as far as poverty – because it was just too difficult.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just have a feeling, a very strong feeling, that if ever this world is civilized, that it would be more the work of women.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t think that women will ever be completely and totally free – or any of the minorities – until you have socialism.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look, it was not the Black, the savages or the Indians who brought about a government such as the Hitler regime...I think after four, almost five hundred years of European domination that this next period would be one of revolt against European domination. And there are lots of lives being lost in Nicaragua and these other places.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I read quite a bit. I would say I read, well, I didn’t read all of Das Kapital, but I read that and Price and Profit, Wage, Labor & Capital, so I had an idea of how capital was made; how it was used, and so forth and so on.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question was always one of land, and it wasn’t tackled in Mexico until the time of Cardenas. And it wasn’t tackled in Cuba until Castro.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theodore Roosevelt...he was an imperialist, but he had a liberal approach.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You had this factionalism all the time.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any effort of the Mexican workers to organize was met with brutal force, from the very beginning.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“1938 was the hardest year because by that time the Depression had really struck every city, every place.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Workers’ Alliance was an organization for the unemployed. And I think it did a tremendous job, because all of the housing projects that are here are due to the Workers’ Alliance...they were organized by the Communists and Socialists.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was removed; because I was a Communist, I was removed from leadership of the Workers’ Alliance of the CIO.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were spontaneous strikes. You don’t have those if you have a good organizer.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had to give any credit to myself, I would say that I was a darn good organizer, and if I did it was because I read the works of the...I read quite a bit about the anarchists’ organization.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Wobblies could come into a town and establish free speech. They’d bring in...one would come by railroad then – ride the rods and so forth and so on – they they’d come into a town. They had one group that would go out. That group would be arrested. They’d get another group to get up and speak, and then another group would fill the damn jail. And you had lawyers there.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve been spending too much money on armaments. We haven’t had any peace since World War II. We had troops in Korea, Vietnam, South American, Europe. We cannot continue to do that.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was beginning to miss more and more meals, so...I’ve come from a family of eleven; I was one of the oldest. I couldn’t get a job, I couldn’t help, I couldn’t do anything, so I left San Antonio. I went to San Francisco and stayed there for twenty years, and to my surprise, I return and I find myself some sort of a heroine.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would like to see a history...not just of the Communists but of the Left Wing movement and its narrow, factional, sectarian approach.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I attended one convention, that was all. The woman for whom I had the greatest admiration was, of course, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. The man for whom I had the...was not Browder, who was the secretary, but was Foster – William C. Foster...along with those heroes whom I did have – women heroes – Mrs. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Babe Diedrickson”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be difficult to say that minorities have not advanced. You will find quite a few members of the state legislature, a few senators, but quite a number who are Mexican. You will find a number who are in the Senate. You will find a lot of Blacks. But, again, you have a split there; you have a split.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have expected my country, your country, to become the scientific Athens, but I don’t think that will be the case.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I once read that people from...among those graduates at West Point you wouldn’t find any liars and cowards: you get Poindexter; you got North. I mean, these guys filled their minds that covert actions, terrorism – the same type that we’re trying to fight”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Ronald Reagan is) nothing but a bag of hot air.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But where are the intellectuals: Where are the Clarence Darrows?...Where are all of those writers who went out and picketed when Sacco and Vanzetti were put in jail? You see, we do have a big movement against war. Against nuclear war, in particular. But I just don’t know...if I could see in the future somebody who could take the presidency and have a knowledge of the program... I would hate to see another Carter or another movie star, because they don’t know foreign policy; they don’t know history.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would say that the times are absolutely different. Unfortunately, American history books, especially at the high school level...and I examined about three of them here in 1968, I haven’t examined any since then. But they were not analytical. They were not critical. You will find history books that will tell you we still don’t know why the Depression occurred – a world-wide Depression. England went on the bill. Certainly, World War I had a lot to do with it. Why did we have a World War II? The unbearable, actually, the unbearable load or money that Germany had to pay us, which actually stripped their economy. Germany never had what you would call a true democratic society.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source