Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

• We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

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  Feet, Together, Steps

  Marcos (subcomandante.), Frank Bardacke, Leslie López, John Ross (1995). “Shadows of Tender Fury”

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• We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

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  Army, Dreamer, Invincible

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• Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

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  War, Choices, Dignity

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• We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

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  Sorry, Revolution, Inconvenience

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

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  Gay, Gang Members, San Francisco

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• Todas las culturas forjadas por las naciones -el noble pasado indígena de América, la brillante civilización de Europa, la sabia historia de las naciones asiáticas y la riqueza ancestral de África y Oceanía- se ven corroídas por el modo de vida estadounidense. De este modo, el neoliberalismo impone la destrucción de naciones y grupos de naciones para reconstruirlas según un modelo único. Se trata de una guerra planetaria, de la peor y más cruel clase, librada contra la humanidad.

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  Wise, War, Past

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• The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.

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  Ideas, World, Care

  Marcos (subcomandante.) (2004). “Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising”, p.502, AK Press

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• In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

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  Dream, Book, Army

  Subcomandante Marcos (2011). “Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings”, p.18, Seven Stories Press

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• Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.

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  Morning, Fall, Love Is

  "Our Word Is Our Weapon". Book by Subcomandante Marcos, 2000.

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• In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

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  Dancer, Tables, Globalization

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• In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

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  Army, Soldier, Needs

  "A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?". Book edited by Tom Mertes and Walden F. Bello, 2004.

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• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

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  Poderoso, Militar, Guerra

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• Hacia el final de la Guerra Fría, el capitalismo creó un horror militar: la bomba de neutrones, un arma que destruye la vida dejando intactos los edificios. Durante la Cuarta Guerra Mundial, sin embargo, se ha descubierto una nueva maravilla: la bomba financiera. A diferencia de las lanzadas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki, esta nueva bomba no sólo destruye la polis (aquí, la nación), imponiendo la muerte, el terror y la miseria a quienes la habitan, sino que transforma su objetivo en una pieza más del puzzle de la globalización económica.

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  Military, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.

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  Powerful, War, Desire

  "Say No to the War of Fear" by Subcomandante Marcos, www.counterpunch.org. February 22, 2003.

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• For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

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  Photography, Photographer, Should

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• Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

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  Way, Majority, Groups

  "'Marcos is Gay'". Greeb Left Weekly, Issue 296, www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

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  Sweet, Distance, Struggle

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• Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?

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  Memories, Men, Cameras

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• ... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

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  Luxury, Thieves, Doe

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• The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.

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  Trying, Roles, Looks

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