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Let us all remember: history makes us and we the people make history

— Elizabeth Martinez Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer (2007)

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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.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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