Dolores Ibárruri
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (9 December 1895 – 12 November 1989), also known as Pasionaria ("the passionate one" or "Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War and a communist.
Quotes
- No pasarán.
- They shall not pass.
- Radio broadcast (Madrid, 19 July 1936), during the Spanish Civil War. The leader of the Nationalist forces, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, upon capturing Madrid, is said to have remarked, Hemos pasado ("We have passed")
Disputed
- It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- Attributed to Pasionaria in Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), ch. 27; also attributed to Emiliano Zapata
External links
- "Danger! To Arms!", marxists.org