Reies Tijerina
Reies López Tijerina is an American activist for the cause of Hispanic rights.
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- I have out grown militancy, I can see beyond it. There is more than one way to change the rich and the powerful. . . . . In my 775 days in prison, I found justice in my heart. I want to dedicate these 775 days to bringing peace and understanding among the people of New Mexico and the whole southwest. The future of the Southwest has greater racial perspective and consequences than the black and the White in the South. . . . . As the Indo-Hispano gains his frozen spirit, he will become a greater and greater threat unless his spirit is channeled in the right direction.
- Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.
- I am not for separatism from the United States. My motto is justice but not independence from or revolution against the United States.
- Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.
- There is a powerful expression of our yearning. But now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States.
- Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.