"La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos."
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The land belongs to those who work it with their hands. â Quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ăngel ZĂșñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister
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Emiliano Zapata
1910 â 1920
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (8 August 1879 â 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910â1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
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