UN General Assembly
1959

We do not mean the same thing by freedom as do the reactionaries, who speak of elections but not of social justice. Without social justice democracy is impossible, for men would be the slaves of poverty. That is why we have said that we are a step ahead of the left and the right, and that this is a humanistic revolution because it does not dehumanize man, because man is its primary concern. Capitalism sacrifices man, and the communist state, with its totalitarian ideas, sacrifices the rights of man. That is why we do not agree with either system. Each nation must develop its own political system, bom of its own needs, and not imposed or imitated. Ours is a revolution sprung from the land of Cuba itself, ask Cuban as our music. Who would expect all nations to listen to the same music? Our revolution is not red but olive green, because olive green is our colour, the colour of the revolution which had its origin in the Rebel Army, in the depths of the Sierra Maestra".