4 Quotes & Sayings By Roxanne Dunbarortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an award-winning journalist, author, and activist. She is best known for her groundbreaking reporting on the U.S. war against Mexico and the Mexican revolution during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly her account of the massacre of more than 200 American oil workers by Mexican revolutionaries. Her reporting was widely credited with influencing U.S Read more

policy in the 1930s and 1940s to support Mexico's fight against fascism and against Nazi expansionism. Dunbar-Ortiz's writing has been translated into ten languages, including German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Corse. The recipient of numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, she currently serves as a senior fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting in California and as a lecturer at Sonoma State University.

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Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs. Roxanne DunbarOrtiz
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Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality. Roxanne DunbarOrtiz
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How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies. Roxanne DunbarOrtiz