"We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."

"We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."

"Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize."

"Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!"

"If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades."

"The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study."

"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."

"Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?"

"It's not my fault if reality is Marxist"

"Words that do not match deeds are not important."

"Let the world change you and you can change the world"

"Words without deeds are worthless."

"We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle."

"Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?"

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

"To accomplish much you must first lose everything."

"Be realistic, demand the impossible!"

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."

"Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats."

"Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy."

"I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees."

"It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies."

"Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers."

"The best form of saying is being"

"Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!"

"A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive."

"The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day."

"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians."

"Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary."

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."

"A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies."

"I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics."

"Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing."

"The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny."

"We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity."

"And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."

"The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."

"One must endure without losing tenderness."

"In a revolution, one triumphs or dies."

"Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary."

"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees."

"It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision."

"A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well."

"I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain."

"Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature."

"How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people."

"I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so."

"I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning."

"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel."