Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Power and the passion quiz

Kate Adams kate@dnki.net
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 06:54:30 -0400


My Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributes this quote to  Emiliano Zapata 
(namsake of the Zapatista rebels in Mexico), and it goes something like 
"Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your 
knees!"

Whether he borrowed it from a greek philosopher, my Bartlett's Familiar 
Quotations does not say.

At 02:05 AM 9/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Kate Adams wrote:
>
>>In the meantime, a little quiz for you Escrutador: (no helpers please)
>>In "The Power and The Passion" the Oils sing "Its better to die on your 
>>feet than to live on your knees".  This was not an original quote.  To 
>>whom may the original quote be attributed?
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