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

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.