"Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days."
— John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues

"They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see"
— Blas de Otero (on censorship)

"There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge."
— Eduardo Galeano

"In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion."
— Eduardo Galeano

"...only the people can save the people"
— Rodolfo Walsh