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.

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

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

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