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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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