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I didn’t want my kids to go through what I went through.

— 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?

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.

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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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