We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.