To Accomplish Much You Must First Lose

The Negro Is Indolent And A Dreamer; Spending His Meager Wage On Frivolity Or Drink; The European Has A Tradition Of Work And Saving, Which Has Pursued Him As Far As This Corner Of America And Drives Him To Advance Himself, Even Independently Of His Own Individual Aspirations.

We Put No Condition Of Any Kind To The U.s., We Don't Want It To Change Its System, We Don't Want Racial Discrimination To Cease In The U.s., We Put No Conditions To The Establishment Of Relations.

The Blacks, Those Magnificent Examples Of The African Race Who Have Conserved Their Racial Purity By A Lack Of Affinity With Washing, Have Seen Their Patch Invaded By A Different Kind Of Slave: The Portuguese. The Black Is Indolent And Fanciful, He Spends His Money On Frivolity And Drink; The European Comes From A Tradition Of Working And Saving Which Follows Him To This Corner Of America And Drives Him To Get Ahead.

The Merit Of Marx Is That He Suddenly Produces A Qualitative Change In The History Of Social Thought. He Interprets History, Understands Its Dynamic, Predicts The Future, But In Addition To Predicting It (which Would Satisfy His Scientific Obligation), He Expresses A Revolutionary Concept: The World Must Not Only Be Interpreted, It Must Be Transformed. Man Ceases To Be The Slave And Tool Of His Environment And Converts Himself Into The Architect Of His Own Destiny.

I Am Being Bombed By Questions Of All Kinds. I Will Try To Be Very Concise And Try To Explain To The American People. We Had A Great Number Of Mistakes In The Economic Fleld, Naturally. I Am Not The Critic. It Is Fidel Castro, The One Who Has Criticized Repeatedly The Mistakes We Have Made, And He Explained Why We Have Made Them. We Did Not Have A Previous Preparation. We Made Mistakes In Agriculture. We Made Mistakes In Industry. All These Mistakes Are Being Settled Now.