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One of the first Chicanas to come into contact with the suffragist movements in the 1880s was Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, a Chicana socialist labor organizer.

— Martha P. Cotera Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)

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It is always easier to battle strangers than one's family.

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We can choose to repeat ancestral practices or to break with them.

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Minorty women could fill volumes with examples of put-downs, put-ons, and out-and-out racism shown to them by the leadership of the [women's] movement.

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Media, communication, and group action are urgently needed if we're going to control our lives in the Eighties and beyond.

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Hispanas and Hispanos together must confront the subject of equal rights. No one else is going to come in and resolve the situation for us.

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