I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

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

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

When I founded the party in 1966, I had just turned 24.And each year, no, not each year, each day I live I've gained new experiences. Now the criticism is not to say the party did not play a positive part in those times, but, in order to be objective, we did not accomplish the things we set out to accomplish.