Great Throughts Treasury

"The unbelievable torture applied to prisoners in Iraq has rendered the world speechless."

"The U.S. should begin the changes before there can be change in Cuba,"

"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."

"There are even irresponsible families who sell their daughters' bodies and insensitive neighbors who think this is the most natural thing in the world ... until tragedy and disease strike."

"There certainly is evidence that both Cuba and Venezuela have been involved in the situation in Bolivia in unhelpful ways."

"There have been nothing but obstacles and difficulties of all kinds,"

"There is no country in the world where the empire's mercenaries enjoy the privileges they do in Cuba."

"There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."

"There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy."

"There's no need for other media outlets to report on the address by the president of the United States; just let Bush do the talking. For a country that can read, write and think, no one can make a more eloquent criticism of the empire than Bush himself.'"

"There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed."

"These doctors could all already be there providing their services,"

"There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,"

"They already turned on the little sign - the cockroaches are brave."

"They always advertise it as mixed with something else."

"They have said that we want to move Cardenas (where Elian lived in Cuba) to the United States,"

"They should put those signs inside, not outside."

"They are guilty with their Cuban Adjustment Act and with their broadcasts and exhortations to leave illegally ... of the dozens, maybe hundreds of people, who die in those attempts, ... They don't give them visas. Then they receive them as heroes."

"They have tried to kill me off so many times,"

"This battle against nature we will also win,"

"This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell."

"This graduation was just a dream nearly seven years ago, ... Today is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach the most lofty goals."

"They were planning a parallel summit."

"This is just one of a whole host of famous quotes from the Cuban leader, who in almost 50 years at the helm never minced his words."

"This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes."

"This is what will happen whenever traitors and mercenaries go a millimeter beyond the point that our revolutionary people ... [are] willing to accept."

"This terrorist act caused terrible damage to the revolutionary movement."

"To turn it into a body which is truly representative of the interest of all the peoples of the world."

"Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them."

"To force us to surrender through hunger and illness ... as part of a monstrous, fascist plan."

"Today, the entire country is an immense University."

"We are going to discuss, let's get an agreement, and really help each other mutually in cases of disaster,"

"Translate into an act of aggression against Cuba. But we know that at this time that is not the fundamental thinking of the U.S. government."

"We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people."

"We are not closing the door."

"We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also."

"We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and his men as a battalion of invincible combatants, who have come to fight alongside us and to write new pages of history and of glory."

"We are the rebels of the West... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East."

"We aren't afraid of anything. It's very difficult to compete against us in any area ... not even in baseball do they want to compete with Cuba."

"We can do it better and take on the major leagues. ... For each player that leaves, 10 better ones arise,"

"We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."

"We have just received 12 locomotives from China. They are simply the best our country has received. They are the most modern, most efficient and of best value."

"We continue to wait patiently for a response. In the meantime, all of you will be taking intensive courses in immunology and also something that I should be doing -- an intensive brush-up course in English."

"We had to fulfill the promise that we would resist, we would fight and we would win, even if we were left absolutely on our own."

"We remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution."

"We have no objection at all that the three US officials visit us to give their assessments and hold an exchange on these matters… We won't close the door."

"We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war."

"We shall always be grateful for that gesture."

"We will talk and we will help ourselves in a dignified manner in cases of disaster."

"We will be there, but I would never have thought I would have to answer that question."