If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.