QUOTE FOR THE TIMES

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Esther (a female leader of the Zapatistas), from Oventik, Chiapas, Mexico, August 9, 2003:

"We do not need to change our culture, our clothing, our language, our way of prayer, our way of working and respecting the land; we cannot stop being indigenous in order to be recognized as Mexicans. They cannot take what we are away from us."

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