Proverb Origin: It Is Better to Die on Our Feet Than to Live on Our Knees

Emiliano Zapata? Dolores Ibarruri? Franklin D. Roosevelt? Ernest Hemingway? Aeschylus? François-Noël Babeuf? Luciano J. Rivas? Rafael Tellez Giron? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A popular saying extolls courage and condemns subservience even when conditions are challenging: It’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees. This motto has been attributed to Mexican …