"We have lost a battle, unhappy friends, but we will see in the end an ordered world that conforms to justice: we will be wise like the serpent and quiet like the dove."
~~ José MartÃ~~
"Mas existe nesta terra muito homem de valor
que é bravo sem matar gente, mas não teme o matador,
que gosta da sua gente e que luta a seu favor,
como Gregório Bezerra, feito de ferro e de flor."
~~ Ferreira Gullar for Gregório Bezerra ~~
"If I were king, I would send all the Flemings to Wallonia and all the Walloons to Flanders for six months. Like military service. They would live with a family and that would solve all our ethnic and linguistic problems very fast. Because everybody's tooth aches in the same way, everybody loves their mother, everybody loves or hates spinach. And those are the things that really count."
~~ Jacques Brel ~~
“I am opposed to a nation carrying the weapons of murder about it as well as an individual. I am resolutely opposed to the whole damned infernal arming business and the whole diabolical program of human butchery. To hell with war and to hell with the system that breeds war and with the government that prepares for war. Like you I yearn to see one nation have the moral courage, the common decency to be a coward nation, the first nation in history too cowardly to commit murder and to thrive in the fruit of murder.â€
~~ Eugene Debs ~~
"I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."
~~ David Lee Roth ~~
"What is the feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
On the Road
"¿Es éste el mundo que creaste, Dios mÃo? ¿Para esto tus siete dÃas de asombro y trabajo?"
~~ Victor Jara
"The cow is of the bovine ilk / One end is moo, the other, milk."
THE COW by Ogden Nash, reprinted in "An American Reader" ca.1958, Rio de Janeiro
"at the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that real revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love"
~~Ernesto Che Guevara~~
my sister, Monica and my mama and my papa. and my great grandma ... and my great-grandpa and you! yes you! and everyone else.