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Quotes from Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte — Enriqueta Vasquez

born 1930 United States

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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)

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