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Elizabeth Martinez Quotes

1925–2021 United States

Elizabeth Martínez (December 12, 1925 - June 29, 2021) was an Chicana feminist and a community organizer, activist, author, and educator.

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We need to see how dance, music, theater, art, poetry, are major arenas for alliance-building, especially among youth. Culture can usher in new visions (Afterword)

Looking over the past two decades, we see close ties between gender-related attitudes and political ideology. A law seems to exist that sexism and heterosexism almost always travel alongside reactionary types of nationalism.

...it should be called "push out" rather than "drop out."

Unite and Overcome!" interview in Teaching Tolerance (1997)

revolution means turning things upside down and taking another look at what is taken for granted. So revolution means new ideas about relations between men and women, too.

Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa (1971)

the contradiction of encountering male-supremacist practices within a movement supposedly fighting for social justice spurred many Chicanas to new consciousness.

Revolutionary Chicanas want the liberation of our people and of all oppressed peoples. We do not want to become page-girls in President Richard Nixon's Congress the most recent bone tossed to "women's liberation."

Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa (1971)

Linking the national identity with race is not unique to the United States. National identity always requires an "other" to define it. But this country has linked its identity with race to an extraordinary degree, matched only by two other settler states: South Africa and Israel.

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