It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, "Why can't we do anything?"

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.