Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.