I can't describe how poor. It was dry and there was dust everywhere, and garbage.

They seem to have somewhat better buildings in the highlands, because it is cooler there. But much of Guatemala remains very primitive.

We had to raise our own support to participate.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!