It is we workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. … - Buenaventura Durruti

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It is we workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

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About Buenaventura Durruti

Buenaventura Durruti (July 14, 1896 – November 20, 1936) was a Spanish-born anarchist, a central figure in Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War.

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Alternative Names: Buenaventura Durruti Domínguez Buenaventura Durruti Dumange José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange José Buenaventura Durruti Domínguez Durruti
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From my earliest years, the first thing that I saw was suffering. And if I couldn't rebel when I was a child, it was only because I was an unaware being then. But the sorrows of my grandparents and parents were recorded in my memory during those years of unawareness. How many times did I see our mother cry because she couldn't give us the bread that we asked for! And yet our father worked without resting for a minute. Why couldn't we eat the bread that we needed if our father worked so hard? That was the first question whose answer I found in social injustice. And, since that same injustice exists today, thirty years later, I don't see why, now that I'm conscious of this, that I should stop fighting to abolish it. I don't want to remind you of the hardships suffered by our parents until we got older and could help out the family. But then we had to serve the so-called fatherland. The first was Santiago. I still remember mother weeping. But even more strongly etched in my memory are the words of our sick grandfather, who sat there, disabled and next to the heater, punching his legs in anger as he watched his grandson go off to Morocco, while the rich bought workers' sons to take their children's place … Don't you see why I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist?

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