"Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society."
"I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years."
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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."
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