I just have a feeling, a very strong feeling, that if ever this world is civilized, that it would be more the work of women. - Emma Tenayuca

In 1929, the Wall Street crash; in 1932, the closing of all the banks... My grandfather lost some money in one of them, and he didn’t tell anybody. The person he told, I mean...he came over to me and told me, he says, “I’ve lost everything I have.” And he was already about, I guess, 65, close to 70. So, I don’t know, I felt that had an awful effect on me.

If I had to give any credit to myself, I would say that I was a darn good organizer, and if I did it was because I read the works of the...I read quite a bit about the anarchists’ organization.

It’s only recently that I have been able to talk about some of the things that I saw here. I mean as far as poverty – because it was just too difficult.