Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.