"We treat the children like children. It is the powerful with their war that treats them like they are adults. We talk to them. We teach them that the word, together with love and dignity, is what makes us human beings. We don't teach them how to fight. Well, yes, but only how to fight with their words. They learn. They know that the reason we are in all this is so that they won't have to do the same. And they talk and they also listen. Contrary to what you say, we teach the children that words don't kill but that yes it is possible to kill words and, along with them, the act of being human."
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Non-fiction authorsLatin American revolutionariesAnarcho-communistsIndigenous rights activistsActivists from Mexico
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"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" January, 2003
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