¡Ya Basta! - A little inspiration for Sunday...

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I've taken an interest in the Zapatista movement lately and thought I would share this passage from Subcomandante Marcos:
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"There are those who resign themselves to being one more number in the huge exchange of power. There are those who resign themselves to being slaves. He who is himself master to slaves also cynically walks the slave's horizontal ladder. In exchange for the bad life and crumbs that Power hands out, there are those who sell themselves, resign themselves, surrender themselves.

"In any part of the world, there are slaves who say they are happy being slaves. In any part of the world, there are men and women who stop being human and take their place in the gigantic market that trades in dignities.

"But there are those who do not resign themselves, there are those who decide not to conform, there are those who do not sell themselves, there are those who do not surrender themselves. Around the world, there are those who resist being annihilated in this war. There are those who decide to fight. In any place in the world, anytime, any man or woman rebels to the point of tearing off the clothes resignation has woven them and cynicism has dyed gray. Any man or woman, of whatever color, in whatever tongue, speaks and says to himself or to herself: Enough is enough! - ¡Ya Basta!

Enough is enough of lies.
Enough is enough of crime.
Enough is enough of death.
Enough is enough of war, says any man or woman.

"Any man or woman, in whatever part of the five continents, eagerly decides to resist Power and to construct his or her own path that doesn't lead to the loss of dignity and hope.

"Any man or woman decides to live and struggle for his or her part in history. No longer does Power dicate his or her steps. No longer does Power administer life and decide death."

--Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN, La Realidad, 1996

¡Ya Basta!