Mario Obledo, former California Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF); former president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC); recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton:
"Eventually we are going to take over all the political institutions of California." ". . . they (those who don't like it) ought to go back to Europe."
Art Torres, former California state senator, chairman of the California Democratic Party:
"Remember, 187 (proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to noncitizens) is the last gasp of white America in California! Understand that."
Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor:
"We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country. . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going out there and vote because I want to PAY THEM BACK!'"
Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets:
"Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future! You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. . . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over."
Fernando Guerra, professor, Loyola Marymount:
"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . non-Latinos aren't watching, they aren't raising questions."
Armando Navarro, professor, University of California:
". . . you are like the generals who command armies! We're in a state of war!"
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council:
"They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over."
Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico:
"Republica del Norte," the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is "an inevitability." The new "Hispanic homeland" should be brought into being "by any means necessary."
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington; founder of La Raza Unida political party; and beneficiary of American generosity:
"We have an aging white America. . . . They are dying. . . . They are ******** in their pants with fear! I love it!" "We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
David Lopez, sociologist, California State University, Northridge:
"In 1848, Mexico lost the war, but in 2050, Mexico will have reclaimed what was rightfully theirs."
MEChA (Chicano Student Movement):
"Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlan must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo with the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan." -- preamble to MEChA's national constitution.