If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

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

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.