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Women do both, raise a family and participate in the struggle, we have to make them connect.
Interview (2011)
The very concept of collective responsibility for human well-being is under attack by neo-liberalism all over the world.
The problem of locating photos often confirms the indifference to women’s presence in history, as reflected in the media, books, historical records, museums, university libraries.
We do not want a few Chicanas to get better jobs, higher salaries, while everyone else continues to be exploited.
Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa (1971)
Here is a call, a most urgent call, for Rainbow Warriors: something ancient, something new.
I didn’t want to be ahead, I wanted to be with the people in the moment. But, you end up being ahead because you’re different. That’s the irony of it.
Interview (2011)
ours is an age of intensified empire-building in which no war is unthinkable.
Crippling controls make the undocumented worker a very special kind of wage slave, in Marxist terms and more enslaved than waged.
In actuality, the 1960s was an era of interconnection across lines of sex and race, time and space. But with rare exceptions, these authors are guilty of fragmenting the movement.
Let us all remember: history makes us and we the people make history
Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer (2007)
We are all inseparable from our times, whether we realize it or not.
It seems nostalgia runs rampant among many Euro-Americans: a nostalgia for the days of unchallenged White Supremacy-both moral and material-when life was 'simple.'
A term originally created by leftists in humorous self-mockery, "PC" is now used to evoke Stalinist demands for conformity. Thus PC-baiting has become a post-Cold War substitute for anti-communism, and a dangerously reactionary political expression.
The revolutionary Chicana does not identify with the so-called women's liberation movement in the United States because up to now that movement has been dominated by white women of middle class background.
La Chicana (1972)
The march reminded us that at one time 17 million Americans boycotted grapes not picked by unionized farmworkers. (“Walking with César”)
That is the true Raza tradition, a communal tradition
Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa (1971)
The voices of the grassroots, of people like Fannie Lou Hamer, must always be heard if we are to understand the past and move effectively toward the future
The articulation of concerns common to almost all women, such as health, child care, domestic violence, rape and reproductive rights, is much more frequent than it was two decades ago.
Much has changed and some things haven't changed. Beware the unholy trinity of the 1960s, still with us: reactionary nationalism, sexism and homophobia. Too often they travel together.
One of the most serious obstacles to genuine diversification is that on most campuses the faculty remains lily-white and male