"Marcos has spread the Zapatista word through riddles. Revolutionaries who don't want power. People who must hide their face to be seen. A world with many worlds in it. A movement of one 'no' and many 'yesses'. The phrases seem simple at first, but don't be fooled. They have a way of burrowing into the consciousness, cropping up in strange places, being repeated until they take on a quality of truth—but not absolute truth: a truth, as the Zapatistas might say, with many truths in it."
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Non-fiction authorsLatin American revolutionariesAnarcho-communistsIndigenous rights activistsActivists from Mexico
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Naomi Klein, as quoted in ¡Ya Basta! Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising (2004), p. 19
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