Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.