“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.”
Category: Ricardo Flores Magón
“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…”
“It is said that Orozco or Villa are to be sent to smother the Liberal movement in Sonora.”
“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.”
“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.”
“How different is it with us! Because we stand for the people; because we wish to see them in possession of the necessaries of life and do not want them cheated with fine words…”
“On with the struggle! On with expropriation, for the benefit of all and not of the few!”
“Authority burns with the dull yellow of phosphorus beside the sun of revolution.”
“Our cause is yours: if you remain inactive while your brothers meet death embracing the Red Flag, you will give with your inaction a rude blow to the cause of the proletarian.”
“Go over the pages of history, and in them you will find that in armed struggles in which the ruling classes have taken part, your role has always been that of cannon fodder…”
“… it is consoling, on the other hand, to see that the rich Yaqui region in the state of Sonora is under the control of the inhabitants of the area, the courageous, dignified and honorable Indians of the Yaqui tribe.”
“Superior! How can a marionette be superior simply because he drags around a sword and adorns himself with shiny ribbons like a circus clown?”
“These editors are trying to numb the powerful revolutionary energies that exist, and to convert them into an electoral flock.”
“The poor class, by virtue of encountering material wealth hoarded by the rich, is forced to depend on them. If the poor man wants to work the land, he has to rent himself out for a determined price that is called the wage and which represents an abrogated part of what he produces with his arms.”
“The slogan of the revolutionaries is this: The present war is waged for the benefit of the rich. Let us fight to the death here, rather than die in the European trenches.”
“The principle that the government has invoked to drag the people into the abyss could not be more pleasing: that of liberty. “
“In the villages there are no police, and, for the same reason, order reigns in them. There are no rich people, so there is no need for police.”
“Four million Indians live in Mexico who, until twenty or twenty-five years ago, lived in communities possessing the lands, the waters, and the forests in common. Mutual aid was the rule in these communities…”
