This book is absolutely fascinating. I highly recommend it if you can find a copy.

“If you mix ethical values with a spirit of rebellion and rejection of injustice, you begin to appreciate and place a high value on a number of things that other people don’t value at all”

“Political ideas are worthless if they aren’t inspired by noble, selfless feelings. Likewise, noble feelings are worthless if they aren’t based on correct, fair ideas”

“The simplicity, clarity and direct manner in which our world and society are explained in The Communist Manifesto had a particularly great impact on me”

Martí had great respect for Marx. He once said of him: “since he sided with the weak, he deserves honour”.

Fidel on reading the Communist Manifesto for the first time

Fidel: “Many of the country’s best beaches were private. Blacks were excluded from many hotels, bars and recreational facilities. All of this was eliminated with the triumph of the Revolution”

Fidel on some of the difficulties of removing racism from Cuban society in spite of the Revolution’s intentions.