"There were many many happy years. I remember those. I try anyhow. I tell myself. Dede, concentrate on the positive!"
-Dede Mirabal
"And i see them all there in my memory, as still as statues. Mama and Papa, and Minerva and Mate and Patria, and I'm thinking something is missing now. And i count them all twice before i realize-- it's me. Dede, it's me. The one who survived to tell the story."
-Dede Mirabal
"Voz del pueblo, voz del cielo" (talk of the people, voice of God"
-Dede Mirabal