Citas

“If gold were able to do more than ideals, our homeland would be lost, because gold is what our enemies have a lot of, to buy conscience.  But nevertheless, all our enemies’ gold is not enough to buy the conscience of a revolutionary!”
References to the original: Speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the construction workers’ congress at the Blanquita Theatre, May 29, 1960
“Those virtues with which our people can resolutely face up any situation, that patriotic feeling, that civic awareness, that political maturity, that revolutionary intelligence which opens up the minds of  all of our citizens to the great truths and unites the people, is the path we will never steer away from.”
References to the original: Speech given during the lunch hosted by the members of the Students Directorate of 1930 at Río Cristal, June 23, 1960

“If behind the free flag, if behind the redeeming Revolution there were not a firm and heroic people like this one, the homeland would neither be free nor the flag would be sovereign, nor would the Revolution march forward with the unwavering firmness with which it marches.”.

References to the original: Remarks at the Second National Assembly of the People of Cuba held at the Revolution Square, February 4, 1962
“I think we are all worthy of a better future, we have a right to a better future; nobility of spirit, the talent of our peoples, their patriotism, their courage, their feelings – all of these make them worthy of a better future.”
References to the original: Closing speech at the Third Continental of Women’s Encounter in Havana, October 7, 1988

“There is nothing like the sense of dignity and honor. There is nothing like the sense of patriotism and the pride of men and women of a revolutionary people.”

 

References to the original: Speech at the Cándido González Sugar Mill Complex, in Camagüey, on February 12, 1996.

"In my view, it is remarkable about the history of our Revolution that it has resisted all attempts to destroy it, and in this sense, that day in which the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were founded was truly historical".

References to the original: Speech delivered at an anti-imperialist rally on the 40th Anniversary of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. Havana, Cuba, September 28, 2000

“Once and for all, they crushed the absurd idea that the suffering endured, and the blood and tears spilled throughout almost a hundred years of struggle for independence and justice against Spanish colonialism and its slavery-based model of exploitation, and later against imperialist domination and the corrupt and bloody governments imposed on Cuba by the United States, were to serve for the rebuilding of a neocolonialist, capitalist and bourgeois society.We did it at the exact and precise moment in history, not a minute before and not a minute later, and we were daring enough to attempt it”.

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