They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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 people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

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

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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

Defending peace is the duty of all.

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

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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