Citas

“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

“Along with the Revolution, one of the most unjust forms of discrimination that has existed has been disappearing: discrimination against women, of the kind that was not talked about but which lay there, continued to exist and weighed heavily upon the women of our country.” 

Speech given at the closing ceremony for the Third National Plenary Meeting of the Federation of Cuban Women on the Isle of Pines. February 19, 1965

References to the original: Speech given at the closing ceremony for the Third National Plenary Meeting of the Federation of Cuban Women on the Isle of Pines. February 19, 1965

“When the structure of the contemporary world is analyzed, we can see that those rights of our peoples are still not being guaranteed. We, the non-aligned countries know very well who our historical enemies are, where the threats are coming from, and how we should fight them.”

References to the original: Speech delivered at the 34th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, October 12, 1979

“Our country could be swept off the Earth, but it could never be conquered and submitted.”

References to the original: Speech made at the funeral of the heroes fell in Granada, November 14, 1983

"The Party is our fundamental instrument, par excellence, of the Revolution and of the construction of socialism. It is an historic and extraordinarily difficult task because socialism had to be constructed under the conditions that our country has had to face."

 

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Special Session of the National Assembly of the People’s Power, February 20, 1990

“It is also said that the West has created a civilization inspired by Christian values.  Indeed, this is said of the West that has been responsible for so many wars and so many tragedies for humanity, of so much misery and so much poverty in the world, of so many conquests and so many colonies, of so much under-development which today plagues the Earth.” 

 

References to the original: Speech given at the funeral for the combatant Rolando Pérez Quintosa at the Colón Cemetery. February 17, 1992
“I think that today in Latin America the prime battle is – in my opinion – that of defeating neo-liberalism because if we do not defeat neo-liberalism we disappear as nations, we disappear as independent States, and we shall be more colonies than the Third World countries ever were.”
References to the original: Speech given at the closing ceremony of the IV Meeting of the Forum at Sao Paulo, held at the Convention Centre, July 24, 1993