We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining … - Fidel Castro

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

In consequence, the National General Assembly of the People of Cuba proclaims before America: <p>the right of peasants to land;</p> <p>the right of the worker to the fruit of his labor;</p> <p>the right of children to receive education;</p> <p>the right of the sick to receive medical and hospital care;</p> <p>the right of the young to work;</p> <p>the right of students to receive free instruction, practical and scientific;</p> <p>the right of Negroes and Indians to 'a full measure of human dignity';</p> <p>the right of woman to civil, social and political equality;</p> <p>the right of the aged to secure old age;</p> <p>the right of intellectuals, artists and scientists to fight through their work for a better world;</p> <p>the right of States to nationalize imperialist monopolies as a means of recovering national wealth and resources;</p> <p>the right of countries to engage freely in trade with all other countries of the world;</p> <p>the right of nations to full sovereignty;</p> <p>the right of people to convert their fortresses into schools and to arm their workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, Negroes, Indians, women, the young, the old, all the oppressed and exploited; that they may better defend, with their own hands, their rights and their future.</p>

I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.