Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.