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Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. ~ Emiliano Zapata
Texas State University Newsroom ^ | 17 September 2018 | Sandy Pantlik

Posted on 05/07/2020 5:21:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“It’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees!”

Emiliano Zapata was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution. As a revolutionary, he commanded the Liberation Army of the South, an important brigade on a mission to force the Mexican government to return lands taken by the elite ruling class to local peoples. Zapata was known as an unrepentant champion of equality for the poor. His famous quote, “It’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees,” provides modern day scholars a view of his resolve for a cause that remains relevant in political debates.

He also is owner of the following quotes:


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lockdown; luther; moye; texas
Emiliano Zapata was one of the very few great leaders Mexico ever had (a similar experience suffered by the French). He truly loved the Mexican people and fought...and died for them. While going to negotiate peace with Carranza, Carranza had him assassinated by the guards a the front gate when he arrived. Shelly Luther chose financial death over bending the knee. God blessed her through other people who still have values and the battle goes on. Zapata is an example of righteous rebellion and so is Shelly Luther. It is time to stand with her on this one.

Mejor morir de pie, que vivir de rodillas ~ Emiliano Zapata

1 posted on 05/07/2020 5:21:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” Patrick Henry


2 posted on 05/07/2020 5:25:14 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

But was Zapata a Robin Hood, or was he a heroic crook whose history is being redefined?

He sure as hell killed a lot of people.

Methinks that Zapata’s personal principles were not as heroic as those of William Travis or Davey Crockett at the Alamo.


3 posted on 05/07/2020 5:28:02 AM PDT by Candor7
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To: gattaca

Yessir. Same concept. Zapata’s statement fits the paradigm right now much better. And, he was truly a great leader for the people too.


4 posted on 05/07/2020 5:28:16 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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But was Zapata a Robin Hood, or was he a heroic crook whose history is being redefined?

You're thinking about Pancho Villa. He robbed people to give to his soldiers and was a crook and a murderer.

5 posted on 05/07/2020 5:29:28 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry – March 23, 1775


6 posted on 05/07/2020 5:41:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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Zapata was imaged as a hero, but he really is being reconstructed by the academic American Left to suit their “fluid sexuality culture.” I do not respect revisionist history much, or the erection of ex pat Mexican nationalism is Texas.

Many Mexicans think the hero’s machismo and heroic rep are hollow.Making him into an American hero? Nah!

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The Mazatlan Post

Was Emiliano Zapata Bisexual and lover of Porfirio Díaz’s son-in-law.

https://themazatlanpost.com/2019/12/12/was-emiliano-zapata-bisexual-and-lover-of-porfirio-diazs-son-in-law/


7 posted on 05/07/2020 5:44:58 AM PDT by Candor7
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Shelly Luther chose financial death over bending the knee.

She is risking actual death because the jails are infested with Wuhan flu.

8 posted on 05/07/2020 5:49:00 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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No matter what the movie was great.


9 posted on 05/07/2020 5:55:11 AM PDT by rocksblues
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Was he related to Frank Zappa ta?


10 posted on 05/07/2020 6:00:46 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Thomas Jefferson


11 posted on 05/07/2020 6:01:44 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: HighSierra5

lol. No. He was one of very few good leaders in Mexico. Like nearly every good leader down there, he ended up dead.


12 posted on 05/07/2020 6:02:20 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: cyclotic

Great minds think alike.


13 posted on 05/07/2020 6:02:45 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Dave's Site

""Better to live on your feet than die on your knees""

The Old Man

Catch 22

14 posted on 05/07/2020 6:15:37 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Candor7
Methinks that Zapata’s personal principles were not as heroic as those of William Travis or Davey Crockett at the Alamo.

Next, you'll be claiming that Che Guevara wasn't a hero either! / s

15 posted on 05/07/2020 6:21:14 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I hadn’t heard that Jefferson quote before and it’s become one of my favorites.


16 posted on 05/07/2020 6:26:48 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

He was a drunk who bandied about and was usually in a whorehouse when important things were happening, but Mexico’s revolution was nominally peaceful and certainly inevitable, and he was it’s willing and beloved hero.
What’s not to love? Better than Obama.


17 posted on 05/07/2020 7:06:08 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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You guys aren't saying it with the proper flair, if I may offer a critique. History is fine, but allow me to offer this line from a great character in an okay movie that grows on you because of him.

"You're all gonna die. Only question is how you check out. Do you want it on your feet...or on your f***ing knees...begging? I ain't much for begging and nobody ever gave me nothin'. So I say, "F*** that thing! Let's fight it!" -Leonard Dillon, Alien 3

18 posted on 05/07/2020 7:12:12 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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Next, you’ll be claiming that Che Guevara wasn’t a hero either! / s

I resemble that remark.

other than driving a Norton Comando motorcylcle, Che’s life was a sordid waste of air.


19 posted on 05/07/2020 9:49:59 AM PDT by Candor7
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