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Any effort of the Mexican workers to organize was met with brutal force, from the very beginning.

— Emma Tenayuca Interview (1987)

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I just have a feeling, a very strong feeling, that if ever this world is civilized, that it would be more the work of women.

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I don’t think that women will ever be completely and totally free – or any of the minorities – until you have socialism.

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I have expected my country, your country, to become the scientific Athens, but I don’t think that will be the case.

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1938 was the hardest year because by that time the Depression had really struck every city, every place.

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The question was always one of land, and it wasn’t tackled in Mexico until the time of Cardenas. And it wasn’t tackled in Cuba until Castro.

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