Citas

“Above the lies and slander, above the repression and force, of propaganda and imperialist crimes, the Cuban workers and peasants have buried capitalist society for good, as a veritable corpse that can never again come back to life.”
References to the original: Speech at the ceremony held at Moscow’s Lenin Stadium, USSR, May 23, 1963
“We cannot say that the pain is shared.  The pain multiplies.  Today millions of Cubans weep alongside the loved ones of the victims of that abominable crime. And when an energetic and virile people weep, injustice trembles!”
References to the original: Speech at the funeral for the victims of the Cubana plane destroyed in mid-air on October 6th, at Revolution Square.
"The rumble of weapons, menacing language, marking arrogance on the international scene, must cease. Enough already with the dream that the world’s problems can be resolved with nuclear weapons. Bombs may kill the starving, the ill and the ignorant, but they cannot kill hunger, disease or ignorance.”
References to the original: Speech at the XXXIV Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

"Imperialism is the one that needs weapons, since it is bereft of ideas.  In order to maintain this opprobrious system as well as all those situations that have been described here, it needs weapons; it has to maintain all those situations by resorting to the use of force".

References to the original: Speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Foreign Debt of Latin America and the Caribbean, August 3, 1985

“I am firmly convinced that the current economic order imposed by the wealthy countries is not only cruel, unjust, inhuman and contrary to the inevitable course of history but also inherently racist. It reflects racist conceptions like those that once inspired the Nazi holocaust and concentration camps of Europe, mirrored today in the so-called refugee camps of the Third World, which actually serve to concentrate the effects of poverty, hunger and violence. These are the same racist conceptions that inspired the monstrous system of apartheid in Africa.”

References to the original: Speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, during the closing session of the South Summit, at the International Conference Center, Havana, Cuba, April 14, 2000
"Cuba is today a source of inspiration and a beacon of hope for many. The revolution’s humanitarian goals and quest for justice are a point of reference for those who believe that a better world is possible and can replace the world of savagery, violence, egotism and squandering which the powerful have created".
References to the original: Address to the second national art instructors graduation ceremony held in Ciudad Deportiva on October 28, 2005

“The empire has created conditions conducive to violence and internecine conflicts”.
 

References to the original: Reflexión: “Un pueblo bajo el fuego”.29 de noviembre de 2007