16+ Subcomandante Marcos Quotes On Education, Government And Constitution

Subcomandante Marcos is a Mexican political activist and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). He is a prominent figure in the Chiapas conflict and has become a symbol of indigenous resistance in Mexico and beyond. He is known for his mask and pipe, and his use of poetry, humor, and political rhetoric to communicate his message. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Subcomandante Marcos on education, government, constitution.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. — Subcomandante Marcos

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible. — Subcomandante Marcos

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. — Subcomandante Marcos

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment. — Subcomandante Marcos

Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you? — Subcomandante Marcos

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. — Subcomandante Marcos

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. — Subcomandante Marcos

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without — Subcomandante Marcos

Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended. — Subcomandante Marcos

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons. — Subcomandante Marcos

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos. — Subcomandante Marcos

We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard. — Subcomandante Marcos

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed. — Subcomandante Marcos

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war. — Subcomandante Marcos

Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction. — Subcomandante Marcos

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice. — Subcomandante Marcos

Life Lessons by Subcomandante Marcos

1. Subcomandante Marcos taught us to fight for what we believe in, no matter the odds, and to never give up on our dreams.
2. He also showed us the importance of standing up for the rights of marginalized people and using our voices to bring attention to injustice.
3. Finally, he demonstrated the power of collective action and the importance of solidarity in the face of adversity.