"With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings."
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"Barba non facit philosophum"
"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."
"We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also."
"Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings"
"They condemn what they do not understand."
"While there's life, there's hope."
"The die has been cast."
"Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold."
"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."
"The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious."
"There is, to be sure, no evil without something good."
"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination."
"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."
"Long live the Unity of Latin America."
"While there's life, there is hope."
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
"Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant"
"The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America."
"To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."
"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."