Reconquista Quotes

“[la Reconquista] Es el hecho más influyente de la Historia de España y un proceso en ciertos aspectos único de la Historia de Europa y del mundo. No ha habido otro caso en el que, después de que un territorio significativo fuera conquistado por el islam —o por otra civilización—, sometido y profundamente transformado por esa civilización foránea, con casi todos sus habitantes convertidos a una religión extranjera, finalmente, siglos después, fuera recuperado por los pequeños vestigios del reino originalmente conquistado.”
― Stanley G. Payne, En defensa de España: Desmontando mitos y leyendas negras

“España se ha construido contra el Islam, en Reconquista, y por lo tanto la cosmovisión islámica del mundo es lo contrario de la cosmovisión cristiana del mundo, del mundo judeocristiano, occidental, del que España ha sido parte importantísima.”
― Santiago Abascal Conde

“Wikipedia: Reconquista (Mexico)
A prominent advocate of Reconquista was the Chicano activist and adjunct professor Charles Truxillo (1953–2015) of the University of New Mexico (UNM). He envisioned a sovereign Hispanic nation, the República del Norte (Republic of the North), which would encompass Northern Mexico, Baja California, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He supported the secession of US Southwest to form an independent Chicano nation and argued that the Articles of Confederation gave individual states full sovereignty, uncluding the legal right to secede.

Truxillo, who taught at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, suggested in an interview, "Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land." He said, "We remain subordinated. We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end" and that on both sides of the US–Mexico border "there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections.... Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again." Truxillo stated that Hispanics who achieved positions of power or otherwise were "enjoying the benefits of assimilation" are most likely to oppose a new nation and explained:

There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, "Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart." But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: "Who am I in this system?"

Truxillo believed that the República del Norte would be brought into existence by "any means necessary" but that it would be formed by probably not civil war but the electoral pressure of the region's future majority Hispanic population. Truxillo added that he believed it was his duty to help develop a "cadre of intellectuals" to think about how the new state could become a reality.”
― Charles Truxillo

“Eis as lanças e espadas retiniam
Por cima dos arneses – bravo estrago! –;
Chamam (segundo as Leis que ali seguiam),
Uns Mafamede e os outros Santiago.
Os feridos com grita o céu feriam,
Fazendo de seu sangue bruto lago,
Onde outros, meios mortos, se afogavam,
Quando do ferro as vidas escapavam.

Com esforço tamanho estrui e mata
O Luso ao Granadil, que em pouco espaço
Totalmente o poder lhe desbarata,
Sem lhe valer defesa ou peito de aço.
De alcançar tal vitória tão barata
Inda não bem contente o forte braço,
Vai ajudar ao bravo Castelhano,
Que pelejando está co Mauritano.

Já se ia o Sol ardente recolhendo
Pera a casa de Tétis, e inclinado
Pera, o Ponente, o véspero trazendo,
Estava o claro dia memorado,
Quando o poder do Mauro, grande e horrendo,
Foi pelos fortes Reis desbaratado,
Com tanta mortindade que a memória
Nunca no mundo viu tão grão vitória.”
― Luís de Camões, Os Lusiadas