If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.