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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Quote of the Day (/Week/Month/Year)
"I know that while we've sacrificed ourselves all this time, there are a lot of people who have made good use of their time, who have been 'living the life' these years because that's 'the only thing they can take with them,' as they say. However, I am not so interested in what I can take with me, but rather in what I'm going to leave behind."
- Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, one of the Cuban Five, from a letter to his wife Adriana from the moving and highly-recommended book Letters of Love and Hope, letters exchanged between the Five and their families from U.S. prison