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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.