"We are building a new society, a society of justice, equality, and human dignity."

"The United States has no right to tell us what to do. We are a sovereign country. We are not a colony of the United States."

"The capacity of resistance of the Cuban people is infinite."

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that gave me a sense of social justice and the ideas that came from the figure of Jesus Christ."

"I reached the conclusion that the only way to achieve our goals was through armed struggle."