The land belongs to those who work it. The people want their rights respected, They want to be paid attention and listened to. Just because they make protest nobody can try to shut them up with bayonets. Emiliano Zapata Leadership, it may be said, is really what makes the world go round. The idea of leadership affirms the capacity of individuals to move, inspire, and mobilize masses of people who that they may act together in pursuit of an end.
Great leaders justify themselves by emancipating and empowering their followers.
His strong influence and his ideas were very profound. These principles included a more equitable distribution of wealth, greater equality of opportunity, improvement in popular education, and the achievement of higher levels of living, and individual and social self-determination. Emiliano Zapata was born in the southern Mexican village of Anenecuilco, Morelos in 1879 to a modestly successful family of farmers and horse breeders. Like most Morelos villagers, the Zapata family was mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry. The Zapata family lived in a country with a long and turbulent history.