“Misery has been the result of this monopoly of our natural wealth by a few foreign companies and a handful of Mexican bourgeois…”
Category: Regeneración
“Washington dispatches troops to the border of Mexico, ready to interfere any moment.”
“Some want to be governors, others are satisfied to become but deputies and there are those so miserable as to aspire to have but the job of a common policeman.”
“Alas, political reform was not enough. The Indians and the peasants were left out.”
“…they need no book learning to convince them that the land is theirs by right.”
“…it is necessary to take up the different schools that have obtained a following on the supposition that they are revolutionary, and ask how it is that when put to the test, as in the case of Mexico, they have fallen down.”
“To deprive human beings from the use of the land is, therefore, an attempt upon their lives; it is on a par with depriving them of the use of the air, without which they would asphyxiate.”
“That which would seem to be really impossible is that the workers have not acted on the proposal that they should throw off the yoke.”
“…this movement is not being made to protect the interests of the bourgeois who suck the blood of the disinherited of Mexico…”
“…nothing will ever be accomplished by charlatan politicians.”
“All those who would feel interested to join in the work of distributing literature, visiting locals, writing letters to the press, helping to arrange meetings, or subscribing to funds, are invited to communicate with me…”
“It is said that Orozco or Villa are to be sent to smother the Liberal movement in Sonora.”
“…it is hard for the average Chicagoan, even the more enlightened one, to grasp the Mexican situation and its importance in relation to himself.”
“You should refuse to give a single cent for the war.”
“The poor man knows only that he has a country because he has to serve in the army, and the benefits he receives from the country are the clubbing by the cop, the taxes to pay the government’s costs…”
“Stupid error of a maddened bourgeoisie! The death of an agitator does not put an end to discontent.”
“Of the many comrades and collaborators of Ricardo Flores Magon, Librado Rivera was by far the closest. Their revolutionary partnership lasted twenty years, rivalling that of Durruti and Ascaso…”
“The American and Canadian workers also join in the joy of the Mexican proletarian for that triumph, although all deplore the loss of that star who was called Stanley.”
“Therefore our chain is your chain. The problem of hunger is universal.”
“They go to bed thinking of the cobweb, they dream of the cobweb and dress up in a hurry to go in search of the cobweb.”
“It seems that what has been chosen to be called Fate has a taste for being ironic and sarcastic.”
“On with the struggle! On with expropriation, for the benefit of all and not of the few!”
