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Dolores Ibárruri Quotes

1895–1989 Spain

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (9 December 1895 – 12 November 1989), also known as Pasionaria ("the passionate one" or "Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War and a communist. Forced into exile following the Republican Spanish defeat in 1939, Ibárruri returned to Spain following the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

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They gave up everything, their homes, their country, home and fortune — fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, sisters and children, and they came and told us: "We are here, your cause, Spain's cause, is ours. It is the cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." Today they are going away. Many of them thousands of them, are staying here with the Spanish earth for their shroud, and all Spaniards remember them with the deepest feeling.

Farewell to the International Brigades (1938)

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dolores Ibárruri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.