The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.

Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.