Citas

“and thanks to the men who undermost adverse conditions, the men who in the republican era waged and unequal struggle against Yankee penetration, men ranging from Juan Gualberto Gómez and Sanguily, who stubbornly opposed this penetration, to the men who in the 20's and 30's sacrificed themselves and fell in the struggle to ensure that the Cuban nationality, the Cuban national spirit, would survive, that the national soul would not be absorbed by the powerful foreigner, thanks to these men, to this work of generations, to this tradition, we have been able to reap this maturity and this revolutionary awareness on the part of our people”.

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMMANDER IN CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ AT THE GREAT POPULAR RALLY STAGED BY THE PEOPLE OF CUBA AT THE CIVIC SQUARE OF THE REPUBLIC, September 2, 1960

“Revolution has awoken the moral feeling of the people; Revolution has awoken human solidarity in men and women of our people; Revolution has abolished selfishness and has made of generosity the main virtue of every citizen; Revolution has gathered the best of the nation; Revolution purified and cleaned up; Revolution has redeemed”.

References to the original: Speech delivered during the political ceremony for the 9th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution held in Revolution Square. Ciudad de La Habana. January 2, 1961

“The Revolution means: true justice that allows men to acquire knowledge that serves for working for the benefit of others”.

References to the original: Speech delivered at the ceremony for the constitution of the construction workers’ Committee for the Defense of the Revolution at the metropolitan public works district

“"Their society" of privileged minorities over exploited majorities, "their class order" which they maintain with blood and fire over the dispossessed, "the homeland" which they alone enjoy, depriving the rest of the people of that enjoyment, to repress the revolutionaries who aspire to a new society, a just order, a true homeland for all”.

References to the original: Remarks at the Second National Assembly of the People of Cuba held at the Revolution Square

“The peoples of the Americas freed themselves from Spanish colonialism at the beginning of the last century, but they did not free themselves from exploitation. The feudal landowners assumed the authority of the Spanish rulers, the Indians continued in painful servitude, the Latin American man in one form or another remained a slave and the minimal hopes of the peoples succumbed under the power of the oligarchies and the strap of foreign capital”.

References to the original: Remarks at the Second National Assembly of the People of Cuba held at the Revolution Square, February 4, 1962
“[…]the struggle for peace also means the struggle for the independence of the peoples, it means the struggle for the freedom of the colonies, it means the struggle for the economic development of the poorest countries, it means the struggle to liberate the peoples from imperialist exploitation and domination.”
References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony at which he received the “Lenin” Peace Prize at the Chaplin Theatre, March 19, 1962

“To create bureaucracy is to blow human resources sky high, is to turn a man or a woman into a useless and parasite citizen; is to ditch human energy and intelligence, which should be destined for useful things for the society, useful things for the human beings.”

References to the original: Speech at the Rubén Martínez Villena Soil, fertilizer and cattle breeding technical school, January 30, 1967