I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Together and united, we are unstoppable.

Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?

Sometimes we just simply have to find a way.

It is still not too late to act

We deserve a safe future. And we demand a safe future. Is that really too much to ask?

Without that sense of urgency, how can we, the people, understand that we are facing a real crisis?

You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up is never an option.

I’m sure the moment we start behaving as if we were in an emergency, we can avoid climate and ecological catastrophe.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution