We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.