Citas

“I reaffirm my conviction that Cuba will march forward, that Cuba has a great destiny and a great people deserving the glory they are earning with their heroism in time of war, their virtue in time of peace and the courage they will show again a thousand times if again a thousand times it were necessary to take up arms”.

References to the original: Remarks made at the Garzon Avenue in Santiago de Cuba. November 30, 1959.

“They can make our people disappear from the face of the earth, but they can never defeat it; because our people with their reason, with their heroism, with their dignity, with their shame and their greatness of spirit is an invincible people, and it is a people that must be respected.”

References to the original: Speech at the ceremony handing over the fifth police station to the Ministry of Education to be converted into the Educational Centre.January 11, 1960.

“We are, simply, a country that has lived up to the moment it is living, a people that, when it was necessary, gathered all the heroics it has inside, all the tenacity, all the braveness, all the nobility, all it has good inside so it could resist all dangers, so it could face all contingencies”.

References to the original: Speech at the ceremony held in front of the Presidential Palace to receive the militia men that were in the trenches, January 20, 1961.
“Our revolution is one of these events which will make history and the people who are bringing about the revolution and the generation which is undertaking the revolution will be talked about in the future with admiration by the coming generations in Cuba, America and the entire world”
References to the original: Speech at the commemorative ceremony for the Martyrs of the Attack on the Presidential Palace on March 13, 1957. March 13, 1961

"The point is that it is not only the warrior what we admire in Che or the man capable of great feats. And what he did, and what he was doing, that fact in itself of facing with only a handful of men an entire oligarchic army, instructed by the Yankee advisers supplied by Yankee imperialism, supported by the oligarchies of all neighboring countries, that fact in itself constitutes an extraordinary feat".

References to the original: Discurso pronunciado en la velada solemne en memoria del Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara, en la Plaza de la Revolución, 18 de octubre de 1967
“How useful it is to rummage through our peoples’ extraordinary history!  So many things to be learned, so many lessons, so many examples!  What a never-ending source of heroism!  Because there have never been a people on this continent that have fought more for their freedom than the Cuban people!”
References to the original: Speech at the solemn ceremony held to honour the Centenary of the Fall in Combat of Major General Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, Camagüey, May 11, 1973
“How well we know the Yankees!  Had we given way one single time to the demands of the imperialists, the Cuban Revolution would not exist.  What has held the imperialists back is the heroism of our people, the price they know they have to pay for an aggression on our country.”
References to the original: Speech given at the Encounter with Brazilian Intellectuals at the Convention Centre of Anhembi, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 18, 1990