1. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
2. A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses
3. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
4. The first duty of a man is to think for himself
5. We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Nuestra America y Otros Escritos
