de chungara

The motherland, for me, is in every corner, it's also in the miners, in the peasants, in the people's poverty, their nakedness, their malnutrition, in their pains and their joys. That's the motherland, right? But in school they teach us to sing the national anthem, to parade, and they say that if we refuse to parade we aren't patriotic, and, nevertheless, they never explain our poverty, our misery, our parents' situation, their great sacrifices and their low wages, why a few children have everything and many others have nothing. They never explained that to me in school. (64)

de Chungara, Domitila (with Moema Viezzer). "Let Me Speak!" On Writing: A Process Reader. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004. 60-65.