"La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos."
— Emiliano Zapata

January 1, 1970

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The land belongs to those who work it with their hands. — 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 Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister