Ezequiel Zamora (1859-1863), Venezuelan leader and soldier, He fought for the vindication of the rights of the peasants and the most humble social classes. For this reason, his name will always be in the memory since his person was important for the time in which his struggle served as a social example.
He was the son of Alejandro Zamora, who died as a soldier in the war of independence, and of Paula Correa, a woman who was described as brave and capable of defending the independence ideals. It is clear that Ezequiel Zamora had the fight running through his veins.
Ezequiel Zamora quotes
Next we are going to leave you some of his most famous phrases not only so that you can discover his thoughts, but also, so that you understand how the feeling of struggle is not only a thing of the past, but is also present in today's society.
They are words and phrases of struggle, of great internal strength ... of a leader who wanted to change the world in favor of the most humble, tired of realizing social injustices, and realizing that sometimes, the struggle is the most feasible way to achieve changes in society. He always wanted a freer, stronger world, without slaves, because the fact of living should already be a reason more than enough to be free and live the life that corresponds with dignity. Don't miss his fighting phrases!
- Free lands and men.
- Always talk to the people, always listen to the people.
- Fear human passions, but this fear does not lead us to want to stifle them or not to direct them to the good of the country or to use them for the benefit of the nation.
- We fight to provide a happy situation for the poor, the poor have nothing to fear, they have nothing to lose, let the oligarchs tremble, there will be neither rich nor poor, the land is free, it belongs to everyone.
- I believed that a government that violates the laws authorizes citizens to rise up en masse against it: I believed that the Venezuelan government had violated them: I finally believed that it was true what the papers said that today have caused my downfall.
- A glorious country, a great State based on the distribution of land, the abolition of contributions, total democracy, providing a happy situation for the poor and general education.
- Is it possible to end the oppression of the oligarchy and the power of the rich? Can the people defeat their tyrants? And why are the lands only owned by the powerful? The earth belongs to everyone like the water, the sun, and nature.
- We are the egalitarian and leveling conscience of the Venezuelan people raised against the last oligarchic privileges and ready to radically comply with those social slogans that have been ignored and delayed since independence.
- The Federation contains within its power the remedy for all the ills of the country. Not; It is not that it remedies them; is that it will make them impossible.
- Because if I did not impose discipline, anarchy would have devoured us, as Bolívar said with his wise word.
- Because if I did not impose discipline, anarchy would have devoured us, as Bolívar said with his wise word.
- There is something rotten in the pot.
- Why, if we are all your children, why do I have to be my neighbor's servant? Why, if I have a soul, can't I enter your church? Why can't I also decide who my leaders will be? Why did my father die then? Were we just born to have only one pants?
- Land and free men is a phrase of mine.
- It was difficult to convince those people but I needed to have obedient battalions to be able to win and, above all, to apply my tactics in the trenches of Santa Inés that I had already studied on the site.
- There will be no difference between people and soldiers; just as each citizen will be a soldier to defend his rights, each soldier will be a citizen in the exercise of sovereignty.
- We are like a dry body: if we are stepped on on one side, we will get up on the other.
- Hard was the decision against a man of my people, fired with revenge for his own circumstances, and from that moment, I began to study how to get rid of him.
- This non-victory is not a moral victory, no, we owed it to the liberator, for the liberator always!
- Unfortunately, Espinoza was worse than the Indian Rangel, because he never accepted my orders, not even my advice. Although he proclaimed himself my subordinate, he always acted as he pleased after pledging his obedience.
- Get up, get up fuck! There are no slaves here.
- Let's each transform ourselves into a school.
- Comrades, neither now nor ever, the shame of chains!
- We will fight to transform every man into a liberator For the earth!
- They deliberated that night and in the morning they read him the death sentence that the man listened to in silence ... I had to do it because, if I didn't, all the morale necessary to succeed with any army would be lost.
- There is only one way to get them to Santa Inés: by enclosing them, locking them up, cornering them with 400 or 500 men.
- They call me the peasant leader, the general of the slaves; but I remind you, here in these troops there are no slaves, we are all free men.
- Our victory and our heroism must be rewarded with the triumph of our principles and the overthrow of tyranny.
- For us, the most important thing in this war is to lead the enemy army towards Santa Inés.
- If we retreat up that mountain, we will all perish miserably. If we fight a battle here, we may die, but with glory.
- We fight to provide a happy situation for the poor… The poor have nothing to fear, they have nothing to lose, let the oligarchs tremble, there will be neither rich nor poor, the land is free, it belongs to everyone.
- The awareness of our rights and our value will make the movement of the peoples of Venezuela simultaneous, decisive and omnipotent for the last and most glorious of its conquests: the federal system.