Citas

"The National Ballet of Cuba has been present in the greatest moments of our major cultural endeavors, throughout the long battle for independence and socialism waged by our people".

References to the original: Key address at the opening ceremony of the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival, October 19, 2002

“We want the youth to be well-educated, well-schooled, well-organized, well-trained, and well-informed. The Revolution has perhaps no more important task than this--the preparation of the new generations for a superior life, a better life, a different life”.

References to the original: Speech made at the end of the academic year function in the ‘Alvaro Reinoso’ Sugarcane Technological Institute, Matanzas, November 13, 1964

"It is not an easy thing to do in the midst of today’s problems complexities in the world today. It is difficult to maintain that inflexible opinion, maintain this inflexible independence, but we will maintain it. This Revolution was not imported from anywhere. It is a genuine product of this country. Nobody told us how we must do it, and we have carried it out. (APPLAUSE) And nobody will have to tell us how we must continue to carry it out, and we will continue to carry it out. We have learned to write history and we will continue to write it. Let no one doubt it".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz during the presentation of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, at the “Chaplin” theater October 3, 1965
“We must think of the future; and the future is you, the future of our homeland is personified by you [...]
References to the original: Speech on the occasion of Children’s Day, July 6, 1974
“Julio Antonio Mella, one day you said that even after we are dead we are useful, because we serve as a standard.  And so it has been!  You were always the standard for our workers and youth in their revolutionary struggles, and today you are the inspirational standard, exemplary, victorious and invincible, of the Socialist Revolution of Cuba!”
 


References to the original: He heads up the ceremony which delivers the ashes of Julio Antonio Mella to the Museum of the Revolution and during the evening ceremony commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the first Marxist-Leninist Party of Cuba, August 22, 1975

“The CIA participated directly in the destruction of the Cubana Airlines plane in Barbados.The must repugnant aspect of this case is the use of mercenaries who, for money, are capable of cutting off in a few seconds the precious lives of 73 defenseless persons, people who had been their fellow passengers in the plane a few minutes earlier”.

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES PLANE DESTROYED IN FLIGHT ON OCTOBER 6

“Imperialism, capitalism, fascism, neocolonialism, racism, man’s brutal exploitation of man in all its forms and manifestations, is approaching its end in humanity’s history, and their maddened lackeys know it; that is why their reactions are ever more desperate, more hysterical, more cynical, more impotent. Only that can explain such repugnant and absurd crimes as the one in Barbados.”.

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE CUBANA AIRLINES PLANE DESTROYED IN FLIGHT ON OCTOBER 6