DOCUMENT #10 - Mujeres en Lucha - Patricia Marín, Page 4. October 2, 1952 to December 19, 1995. Text originally published in the October – December 1995 issue of ¡La Verdad! Revised and re-published for aguilaycondor.net on the 15th Anniversary of the passing of Compañera Patricia Marín. Below is a text version of the revised text, and the menu to the right provides an audio version that can be downloaded and listened to, as well as a video version.
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Patricia also understood that people have a relative value in history - the idea that movements are not defeated when people fall, that the forward march of history cannot and will not be halted when leaders fall. Her life expressed her faith in people, her faith in ideas, and her faith in examples. Because Patricia Marín was the a tremendous example of a Revolutionary Mexicana. We understand that in real revolutionary struggle one wins or dies. Our sister Patricia left us as a revolutionary - up to her final days we see she spent as a builder of Mexicano liberation, laying the foundation for the birth of a better future for our gente. For those of us that knew her, it rests on us that we take up the banner of her example and make it our own - this, and only this, that will give Patricia Marín the honor she deserves. We know she would want it no other way.
We greatly appreciate the value of her example. We are convinced that our people will strive to live up to her example; that people like her will continue to emerge. It is not easy to find a person with all the virtues that were combined in Patricia. It is not easy for a person, spontaneously, to develop a character like hers. We say that she is one of those people who are difficult to match, and virtually impossible to surpass. We also understand that it is the example of people like her that contributes to the development of people of the same caliber.
While the leading organizational responsibilities and community work of Patricia Marín have ended with her passing, her importance to Unión del Barrio has not ended. Her physical ties to the group may have ended, but it is her status as a revolutionary that will forever keep her within our ranks. Her memory will live on in our renamed Women's Commission, the Comité de Mujeres Patricia Marín (CMPM) and the Comité Local Patricia Marín in Los Angeles, CA.
In closing, we wish to remember Patricia Marín as the highest expression of a mother, sister, friend, comrade, and revolutionary. We must uphold her for her magnitude as a woman, her discipline, and her spirit of devotion towards the liberation of our pueblo. She served our revolutionary struggle honorably, and in these moments of remembrance we must lift our spirits high with optimism for the future, for we know that freedom will be ours - and Patricia Marín is part of our final road towards victory! Therefore we say with pride:
¡Hasta La Victoria - Siempre!
¡Que Viva Patricia Marín!
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