Enriqueta Vasquez Quotes

born 1930 United States

Enriqueta Vasquez (Born 1930) is a writer who has been a part of the Chicana Movement. She wrote for El Grito del Norte from 1968 to 1973 and has published two books.

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How can one guarantee complete non-violence when one lives in a completely VIOLENT country?

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

I certainly embrace socialism. I can’t see any other solutions. This country (the United States) could feed the world if it wanted to.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

A woman who has no way of expressing herself and realizing herself as a full human has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

I am but one of many who walked this path of change: it took a movement to change what this place called North Amerika had become.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

To find a job, a single mother will be faced with working very hard during the day and coming home and again having to work at home.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

There are not a few people with too much and others with too little; instead, everyone has enough. (1969, about Cuba)

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

I didn’t want my kids to go through what I went through.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

When we speak of Gringo, we do not particularly hate all white people, but we refer to their social system as ‘Gringo.’ That is what we don’t like.

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

Today's world needs woman's thinking and a humanitarian approach to solving world hunger, violence, rage, war, environmental, and economic issues. Remember that when women are silent, only one-half of the population is being heard.

The Women of La Raza: An Epic History of Chicana / Mexican-american Peoples (2016)

Protesting this war, Chicano/as rose to condemn the killing fields with the slogan "Raza Si, Guerra No,” we wanted our young men here fighting for justice instead of in a faraway war.

The Women of La Raza: An Epic History of Chicana / Mexican-american Peoples (2016)

Both, men and women faced the white, male-dominated world and its blatant racism; women in the workplace and servicemen in the war where they returned to tell stories of Raza and Blacks far outnumbering Anglos in the front lines.

The Women of La Raza: An Epic History of Chicana / Mexican-american Peoples (2016)

I had heard that the revolution lives everyday and that it must continue to change and live everyday if it is to be truly of and for the people. (1969, about Cuba)

Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (2006)

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