“Today’s society was not the natural form in which human life evolved; it was a creation of already mentally developed man, without which he couldn’t conceive of his own existence. What is being proposed is, therefore, whether the human being will be able to survive the privilege of having a creative intelligence.”
“For super-developed societies, the problem is not growth but distribution, and not only distribution amongst themselves, but distribution among all of them. The sustainable growth we are talking about is impossible without a more just distribution among all countries.”
“[…] Do a better job dividing up the wealth of the world among all nations and within the nations; set up true solidarity among the peoples, that is the only way our dreams of today can become realities tomorrow.”
"The rich world should condone their foreign debt and grant them fresh soft credits to finance their development. The traditional offers of assistance, always scant and often ridiculous, are either inadequate or unfulfilled."
“We will make use of computers, not to create weapons of mass destruction and exterminate people but to convey knowledge to other peoples. From the economic point of view, the development of the intelligence and conscience of our fellow citizens, made possible by the Revolution, allow us not only to aid those in most need at no cost to us, but also to export specialized services, including healthcare services, to countries that have more resources than our own. In this field, the United States will never be able to compete with Cuba.”
“Today, the United States have nothing of the spirit behind the Philadelphia declaration of principles formulated by the 13 colonies that rebelled against English colonialism. Today, they are a gigantic empire undreamed of by the country’s founders at the time. Nothing, however, was to change for the natives and the slaves. The former were exterminated as the nation expanded; the latter continued to be auctioned at the marketplace —men, women and children—for nearly a century, despite the fact that “all men are born free and equal”, as the Declaration of Independence affirms.