Citas

“The true law and order is that which is based on freedom, on respect for justice, and not on force”.

References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel at “Céspedes” Park, Santiago de Cuba

"The men who have fallen in our three wars of independence today join forces with the men who have fallen in this war. And we can say to all those who have fallen in our struggles for freedom that at last the time has come for their dreams to be fulfilled."

References to the original: Address by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at Céspedes Park in Santiago de Cuba, on the 1st of January of 1959
“The problem is not just one of freedom; the problem is not just that everyone should have the freedom to speak, to write, to vote, to meet together, the problem is that they should also have the right to live.”
References to the original: Speech given at the College of Architects. February 16, 1959

"We will know how to resist any aggression, but that we will know how to overcome any aggression, and that again we would have no other dilemma than that with which we began the revolutionary struggle: that of freedom or death".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz during the funeral rites honoring the victims from the explosion of La Coubre Vessel, held in Colon cemetery on the 5th day of March 1960
“And not only shall we know how to stand up to any aggression; we shall know how to triumph over any aggression; and we shall have no choice  other than the one with which we started our revolutionary struggle: freedom  or death.  But now, freedom means something else:  freedom  means homeland.  And our choice shall be: Homeland or Death.”
References to the original: Speech delivered at the funeral for the victims of the “La Coubre” explosion, at the ‘Colón’ Cemetery, March 5, 1960
“[…] because when a people are constructing their future, when a people have come out of the past and broken their chains, a breech has been opened in the middle of a wall of interests, and that people will never resign themselves to give up the path they have taken, that people can never be defeated by anything or anyone!  […]”
References to the original: Speech at a gathering in Pinar del Río, May 20, 1960

“"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