“We would like you (and your noble teachers) to know that we did not take up arms for the pleasure of fighting and dying; it is not because we don’t want peace that we look for war. We are living without peace already.” #BreonnaTaylor #GeorgeFloyd #TonyMcDade 1/x

“Our boys and girls are like you, but infinitely poorer. For our children there are no schools or medicines, no clothes or food, not even a dignified roof under which we can store our poverty. For our boys and girls there is only work, ignorance, and death.” 2/x

“The land that we have is worthless, and in order to get something for our children we have to leave home and look for work on land that belongs to others, powerful people, who pay is ver little for our labor.” 3/x

“Our children have to begin working at a very young age in order to be able to get food, clothing, and medicine. Our children’s’ toys are the machete, the ax, and the hoe; from the time they barely able to walk, playing and suffering they go out looking for wood...” 4/x

“We their fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers, no longer want to carry the guilt of not doing anything to help our children. We look for peaceful roads to justice and we find only mockery, imprisonment, blows, and death;” 6/x

“..we already find pain and sorrow. We couldn’t take it anymore, boys and girls of Jalisco, it was too much pain and sorrow. And we were forced to take the road to war, because our voices had not been heard.” 7/x

“Boys and girls of Jalisco, we do not ask for handouts or charity, we ask for justice: a fair wage, a piece of good land, a decent house, an honest schoo, medicine that cures, bread on our tables, respect for what is ours, the liberty to say what is on our minds...” 8/x

“..and to open our mouths so that our words can unite wi Th others in peace and without death. This is what we have always asked for, boys and girls of Jalisco, and they didn’t listen.” 9/x

“AND IT WAS THEN THAT WE TOOK A WEAPON IN KUR HANDS, IT WAS THEN THAT WE MADE OUR WORK TOOLS INTO TOOLS OF STRUGGLE.” 10/x

“WE THEN TURNED THE WAR THAT THEY HAD MADE ON US, THE WAR THAT WAS KILLING US—WITHOUT YOU, BOYS AND GIRLS OR JALISCO, KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT IT—WE TURNED THAT WAR AGAINST THEM, THE RICH AND POWERFUL, THOSE WHO HAVE EVERYTHING AND DESERVE NOTHING.” 11/x

“That is why, boys and girls of Jalisco, we began our war. That is why the peace that we want is not the peace that we had before, because that wasn’t peace, it was death and contempt, it was painful and suffering, it was disgrace.” 12/x