"I am not a legend. I am just a man who has fought for his people."

"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."

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

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

"I have a reputation for being a dictator. But I assure you, I am a very democratic dictator."