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.

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

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

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

If someone is responsible, it's me.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.