It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
Quoted in Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe - 1979, by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, p. 281 This is sometimes misattributed to the more modern revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to Dolores Ibárruri ("La Pasionaria"), especially in Spain, where she popularized it in her famous speeches during the Spanish Civil War, to José Martí, and to Aeschylus who is credited with a similar declaration in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life." Spanish variants: ¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado! As quoted in Operación Cobra : historia de una gesta romántica (1988) by Alvaro Pablo Ortiz and Oscar Lara Variant translations: Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! With an extension, as quoted in Timeless Mexico - 1944 by Hudson Strode, p. 259 I would rather die standing than live on my knees! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! I prefer to die standing than to live forever kneeling. Prefer death on your feet to living on your knees.
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
Quoted in 'Heroes of Mexico' - 1969 by Morris Rosenblum.
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