Ann Marie Dillon Quotes

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

We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

(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.

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

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

Surely the agents of the government, businessmen and political parties have sent to inform you what happens here. After hearing us and hearing you, they will write in their report a false alarm. There`s nothing to be worried about. The suspects are crazy and they haven`t noticed each other. End of report.

We hold a dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. That`s why we hold a dialogue.

What we`re going to do is shake this country up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head,

The aim is to listen and learn about the struggles, the resistance and rebel movements, support them and bind them together to build a national anti-capitalist, leftist program.