51 Quotes by Subcomandante Marcos

What follows is not a new political party on the left, but a huge front made up of political and social organizations.

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

The world has lost one of those women it requires. Mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs and we, we have lost a piece of our heart.

(President Ernesto) Zedillo destroyed any confidence in his government. Without confidence, it is impossible to reach agreements. If there are no agreements, why hold a dialogue? ... July 1998 from the mountains of southeastern Mexico.

The movement is growing, more people are coming in, we are getting to know people that we did not know before.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

The Zapatista delegation will start out where it started 12 years ago on January 1 2006, in San Cristobal de las Casas.

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.