Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.