I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

A poet must learn to wage war.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.