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Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976

Book by Iris Morales · 3 quotes · Young Lords, Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans

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“We believed that the women’s struggle for equality was the ‘revolution within the revolution.”

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“Seeing the society that the Cuban people were attempting to build inspired me to believe it was possible to arrange a nation’s priorities to meet the needs of the majority of its people instead of just those of its corporations and super rich.”

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“At its best, the Young Lords offered revolutionary ideals and examples of movement-building strategies and tactics, and tough, hard-hitting, and painful lessons from its setbacks and failures.”

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