I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.