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The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Arms cannot be commodities in our world. They must be delivered to the peoples asking for them to use against the common enemy, with no charge and in the quantities needed and available.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Man still needs to undergo a complete spiritual rebirth in his attitude towards his work, freed from the direct pressure of his social environment, though linked to it by his new habits.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Until always, little children. I still hope to see you again. A really big kiss and a hug from Papa.
Letter to his Children (1965)
The International Monetary Fund is the watchdog of the dollar in the capitalist camp.
On Development (1964)
What is our ideology? If l were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out.
Cuba: A Dissenting Report (1960)
Remember, there are still many years of struggle ahead, and even when you are a woman, you will have to do your part in the struggle.
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
We speak out to put the world on guard against what is happening in South Africa. The brutal policy of apartheid is applied before the eyes of the nations of the world.
Address to the United Nations (1964)
The guerrilla is supported by the peasant and worker masses of the region and of the whole territory in which it acts. Without these prerequisites, guerrilla warfare is not possible.
Method of Guerrilla Warfare (1963)
Now is the time to throw off the yoke, to force renegotiation of oppressive foreign debts, and to force the imperialists to abandon their bases of aggression.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
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.
Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb.
On Growth and Imperialism (1961)
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
Address to the United Nations (1964)
The dictatorship tries to function without resorting to force so we must try to oblige it to do so, thereby unmasking its true nature as the dictatorship of the reactionary social classes.
Method of Guerrilla Warfare (1963)
The people did not talk about reciprocal concessions but demanded liberties and guarantees, which brought inevitably in many sectors a crueler war than the French would have waged otherwise.
People's War, People's Army (1964)
The university, vanguard of our struggling people, cannot become a backward element, but it would become so if the university did not incorporate itself into the great plans of the Revolution.
Speech to University students (1959)
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
On Growth and Imperialism (1961)
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of us all.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
The example of a revolution and the lessons it applies for Latin America have destroyed all coffee house theories; we have demonstrated that a small group of men supported by the people without fear of dying can overcome a disciplined regular army and defeat it.