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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.

— Elizabeth Martinez

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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.

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.

I didn’t want to be ahead, I wanted to be with the people in the moment. But, you end up being ahead because you’re different. That’s the irony of it.

Interview (2011)

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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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