The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.