I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

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.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.