The martyred founder of RAWA left this message behind, among many others:

I'LL NEVER RETURN

      I'm the woman who has awoken
      I've arisen and become a tempest through the ashes of my burnt children
      I've arisen from the rivulets of my brother's blood
      My nation's wrath has empowered me
      My ruined and burnt villages fill me with hatred against the enemy
      Oh compatriot, no longer regard me weak and incapable,
      My voice has mingled with thousands of arisen women
      My fists are clenched with fists of thousands compatriots
      To break all these sufferings all these fetters of slavery.
      I'm the woman who has awoken,
      I've found my path and will never return.