Status Updates From The Prison Letters of Fidel...

Perhaps Balzac, always hounded by this class of characters, would
have felt at ease in such circumstances. Let us hope that my premonition that I will miss prison when I am free will not be fulfilled! I have spoken already too much.

“The best proof that there is no dictatorship is that there are no political
prisoners,” they said for many months. Today prisons are overflowing and
people are leaving in exile; thus, they cannot say that we live under a democratic constitutional regime. Their own words condemn them.

reminds me of a certain country called India lol.

Don’t worry about me; you know I have a heart of steel and that I will be stalwart till the last day of my life. Nothing has been lost!

It would be too much magnanimity to permit me the company of a corpse!

May the curse of History fall upon the hypocrites!

“How meager my library is! But i truly have a great love for it, and the day I collect few pesos I propose to pay for some (more) though I still owe money.”

“Renato is and will be perpetually present among us as he will be in the hearts of all Cubans. He embodied idealism, dignity, character, and set an unforgettable example. He knew that those who fall for the causes will never die.”

“It is difficult to keep the mortal hatreds that seek to invade my heart at bay. I don’t know anyone who has suffered more than I have in these past days; they have been a terrible and decisive test, capable of extinguishing the last ounce of kindness and purity in my soul.

“What is important now is to save our principles; everything is saved if our principles are saved ; from the greatest depth of the rot the redeeming ideal will surge will surge forth, purified and clean.”

“What is measured at the hour of battle for freedom is not the number of the enemy’s weapons but the number of virtues of the people...
The masses are ready; all they need is to be shown the true path.”