Freedom Is Often The First Casualty Of

I Plead Youth As A Mitigating Circumstance.

The Adolescents Of My Generation, Greedy For Life, Forgot In Body And Soul About Their Hopes For The Future Until Reality Taught Them That Tomorrow Was Not What They Had Dreamed, And They Discovered Nostalgia.

To Oppression, Plundering And Abandonment, We Respond With Life.

And Again, As Always, After So Many Years We Were Still In The Same Place We Always Were.

What Uncle Leo Xiii Never Suspected Was That His Nephew's Courage Did Not Come From The Need To Survive Or From A Brute Indifference Inherited From His Father, But From A Driving Need For Love, Which No Obstacle In This World Or The Next Would Ever Break.