"Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society."
"Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do."
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"Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality."
"I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists."
"If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more."
"First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left."
"People can progress only by working and producing more."