We Are Not Only A Latin American

With What Moral Authority Can They Speak Of Human Rights - The Rulers Of A Nation In Which The Millionaire And Beggar Coexist; The Indian Is Exterminated; The Black Man Is Discriminated Against; The Woman Is Prostituted; And The Great Masses Of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, And Latin Americans Are Scorned, Exploited, And Humiliated? How Can They Do This - The Bosses Of An Empire Where The Mafia, Gambling, And Child Prostitution Are Imposed; Where The Cia Organizes Plans Of Global Subversion And Espionage, And The Pentagon Creates Neutron Bombs Capable Of Preserving Material Assets And Wiping Out Human Beings.

I Never Perceived A Contradiction In The Political Revolutionary Field Between The Ideas I Maintained And The Idea Of That Symbol, That Extraordinary Figure Who Had Been So Familiar To Me Since I Began To Reason.

Whoever Hesitates While Waiting For Ideas To Triumph Among The Masses Before Initiating Revolutionary Action Will Never Be A Revolutionary... Humanity Will, Of Course, Change; Human Society Will, Of Course, Continue To Develop - In Spite Of Men And The Errors Of Men. But That Is Not A Revolutionary Attitude.

Nowhere In The World, In No Act Of Genocide, In No War, Are So Many People Killed Per Minute, Per Hour And Per Day As Those Who Are Killed By Hunger And Poverty On Our Planet.

The Revenues Of Cuban State-run Companies Are Used Exclusively For The Benefit Of The People, To Whom They Belong.