Civil war Quote by Robert Hass

“Tuco Medrano, wearing a black ski mask, walked quickly across the busy Bulevar Ignacio Bernardo Norzagaray and put two rounds through the driver side…

— Anson Scott

“The Directorio Revolucionario (“DR”) existed during the mid-1950’s and it was a Cuban University students’ group in opposition to the dictator President Fulgencio Batista.…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball,…

— Ulysses S. Grant

[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform,…

— Noam Chomsky

Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy…

— Michael Parenti

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic…

— Max Frisch

“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his father's swag, and ended up dying in a car crash of his own…

— Junot Díaz

It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered…

— Roberto Bolano

“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose…

— Thornton Wilder

The life of Cesar Chavez is a story that must be told. He was a man who dedicated his life to accomplishing change in…

— Diego Luna

“is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had to suffer,…

— Emma Goldman

But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by…

— John T. Flynn