Every night of September 15, women raise their unique Cry of Independence to the wind to commemorate the beginning of one of the most important festivities in Mexico. On September 16, Mexico’s Independence Day is celebrated, a national holiday that Mexicans celebrate with family, karaoke and joy. We bring you 16 great phrases (with images) to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Long live Mexico, damn it!
The history of the Independence of Mexico: when is it celebrated?
It all began at dawn on September 16, 1810, when the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bells of the parish of Dolores, Guanajuato, summoning the inhabitants of Dolores to rebellion. The Cry of Dolores, as this fact is known, was a watershed in Mexican history, since thanks to it, the independence movement came to life. Eleven years later, after a bloody war, Mexico was able to proclaim itself independent from the Spanish Crown.
Independence Day continues to be celebrated as a victory that makes the people .On September 15 at 11:00 pm, the President of the Republic goes out onto the balcony of the National Palace with the Mexican flag and gives the “Cry for Independence “to start the national holiday.
16 phrases to commemorate Mexican Independence Day
This historic Mexican day could not be conceived without the mythical of Independence, such as Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende or Josef Ortiz. But neither can we forget the quotes from more contemporary thinkers who have redefined the national and democratic feeling of Independence in a modern and current context. We, from here, want to pay tribute to Mexico and the Mexicans with this compilation of the best messages for Mexican Independence Day. Words that inspire and allow us to reflect on History and the current situation in which we live. You will love it!
1 Long lives our national independence! Long live the heroes who gave us homeland and freedom! Long live Hidalgo! Long live Morelos! Long live Allende! Long live Doña Josef Ortiz de Dominguez! Long live Mexico!
This is the famous Cry of Independence that the President of the Republic currently shouts every night of September 15. Long live Mexico!
2Long live our most. Death to bad government. Long live religion and death to the Gachupin’s
First Cry of Dolores
This is the first Grit de Dolores, the one given by the priest Miguel Hidalgo in the Church of Dolores, Guanajuato. The Gachupin’s was a derogatory colloquialism to designate the Spanish.
3 Pardon is for criminals, not for defenders of the homeland
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Considered the Father of the Nation, the revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo was, without a doubt, one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican independence movement. Legend has it that he was very fond of chocolate, so much so that he even had a cup of hot chocolate along with Juan Altima and Ignacio Allende just before giving the cry. In 1811 he was arrested and shot, but his cry for last forever.
4 Without democracy, freedom is a chimera
Octavio Paz
The Nobel Prize for Literature was one of the most influential Mexican thinkers of the 20th century. Among his writings and statements by him, there are phrases about democracy like this one, closely linked to his career by him as a diplomat. A phrase that evokes the spirit of Independence.
5 Regardless of the size of the city or town where men or women are born, they are ultimately the size of their work, the size of their will to magnify and enrich their brothers.
Ignacio Allende
Rumor has it that Ignacio Allende and Miguel Hidalgo did not have the same vision of the independence movement. Allende became known as a military man with ethics and chivalry and wanted to advance to the capital after the capture of the Alhóndiga de Granada’s in Guanajuato, but Hidalgo refused, which caused a split in the movement. For strategic reasons, he ended up succeeding Hidalgo, but both, betrayed by Ignacio Elizondo, were arrested and executed. Allende’s head of him was exhibited in Guanajuato from his execution of him in 1811 until the end of the war in 1821.
6 So many soldiers to guard a poor woman, but with my blood I will create a heritage for my children!
Josef Ortiz de Dominguez
Through the literary groups of Querétaro in which the Enlightenment was defended, a fact prohibited by the Catholic Church, Josef Ortiz began her stage as a clandestine insurgent, becoming one of the most popular figures of the Independence of Mexico. Nicknamed La Corregidor because she was the wife of the Corregidor, she was able to notify Miguel Hidalgo that the conspiracy had been discovered, thanks to the movement of her shoes that notified the mayor of Querétaro, who sent a warning to those who were in Dolores. The Querétaro Conspiracy is considered an antecedent of the Dolores insurgency.
7 Women are the great forgotten of history. Books are the best way to pay tribute to them
Elena Poniatowska
This phrase by the Mexican journalist, writer and activist, Cervantes Prize winner, Elena Poniatowska, alludes to the participation Mexican independence process, often forgotten and silenced.
8Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom his indisputable arm
Benito Juarez
Known as the Benemerito de lass Americas, this Mexican lawyer and politician of Azotic indigenous origin, was president of the Republic on several occasions. He is considered an indisputable part of the formation of the Mexican state and the consolidation of the nation as a republic.
9Between individuals, as between nations, respects peace.
Benito Juarez
Perhaps this is the most iconic phrase of President Benito Juarez, a phrase that denotes the independence thinking of the time, closely linked to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
10 Men are nothing, principles are everything
Benito Juarez
Another of the mythical phrases of Benito Juarez to celebrate the Independence Day of Mexico.
Eleven Dying is nothing when one
Jose Maria Morelos and Avon
The priest and soldier of Spanish origin are considered one of the architects of the second stage of Mexican independence. Morelos is the creator of the famous Sentiments de la Nation, which he presented in 1813 at the Anahuac Congress, the first legislative body in the history of Mexico.
12Revolutionary freedom is perverted by personal power
Carlos Fuentes
The phrases of the award-winning Mexican writer and diplomat Carlos Fuentes are considered a continuation of the spirit of Independence in the current era.
13When people jump over their barriers, almost no effort is powerful enough to stop them.
Guadalupe Victoria
Guadalupe Victoria was the Brigadier General of the Mexican Army after the death of Morelos. He was the first president of Mexico, and during his term de ell as President, he abolished slavery, promoted education, decreed the Spanish expulsion law, and ratified the border with the United States.
14 the homeland comes first
Vicente Guerrero
Another of the post-independence Mexican presidents, Vicente Guerrero, was a Mexican soldier and politician who actively participated in the Resistance stage of the independence war. His father de ell, a supporter of Spanish realism, asked him on his knees and with tears in his eyes to lay down his arms de ell. But apparently, Vicente Guerrero responded: “Gentlemen, this is my father; he has come to offer me the forgiveness of the Spanish and a job as a Spanish general. I have always respected him, but the Homeland comes first”.
Fifteen the greatest and most powerful nation is weak if it lacks justice
Manuel Jose Ithon
Phrase of one of the Mexican representing the modernist movement of Mexican literature. In addition, Ithon was a federal deputy and joined the Union Congress in 1900.
16 There is something as necessary as daily bread, and it is daily peace. The without which bread is bitter
Loved nerve
A wise phrase to remember the Mexican Independence Day of the Mexican poet, writer and diplomat Amado Nerve, belonging to the modernist literary of Mexico, Spain and Latin America at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.
