The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

The United States is already antique.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.