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Emiliano Zapata

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Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.
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I rather die on my feet than live upon my knees.
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As quoted in Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe? (1979) by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, p. 281; this is sometimes misattributed to the more modern revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to Dolores Ibárruri ("La Pasionaria"), especially in Spain, where she popularized it in her famous speeches during the Spanish Civil War, to José Martí, and to Aeschylus who is credited with a similar declaration in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

 
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