Citas

“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 aspire not only to a communist society but to a communist world in which all nations will have equal rights. We aspire to a communist world in which no nation will have the right to veto. And we aspire that the communist world of tomorrow will never display the same picture of a bourgeois world torn by internal squabbles. We aspire to a free society of free nations in which all the countries, large and small, will have equal rights.”

References to the original: Speech delivered during the presentation of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, at the “Chaplin”, October 3, 1965

"Can the empire and the system responsible for all this really talk to the world about human rights? Human rights within a system where a large part of the population is unemployed, where women are prostituted, where children are abandoned? The numbers of abandoned children in Latin America are impressive, they number millions, many millions. How can this system offer hope to mankind? How can this system speak of consideration for mankind?
That’s why we have so much faith in socialism, and we have so much confidence in socialism and such deep socialist convictions".

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMMANDER IN CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ ON THE OCCASION OF THE XXX ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHYSICAL DISAPPEARANCE OF CAMILO CIENFUEGOS, IN LAWTON, HAVANA CITY, 28 OCTOBER, 1989

“We should proclaim with all of our energies that we have the right to breath pure air, to drink uncontaminated water, to feed ourselves with healthy food….we have the right to be educated, to receive medical assistance, to be less poor when others are ever richer.”

References to the original: Speech delivered at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) held in Istanbul, Turkey, June 14, 1996

"Let’s speak of justice, freedom and human rights where there is equality, respect for everyone, culture for everyone because without culture there cannot be freedom, without culture you cannot even be a democrat."

References to the original: Speech to representatives of Brazil’s National Students Union. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. July 1, 1999

"Private medicine grants privileges to those who have money to the detriment of those who do not have it and nothing could be more inhumane than that. It is unbelievable that rich societies that apply this and many other similar policies speak of human rights and humanity when their own system is the most inhumane, the most egotistic, the most individualistic and the most alienating".

References to the original: Speech given by DR. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba to the students graduating from the Havana Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, at the Karl Marx Theater on August 9, 1999

"History has shown that it is only from deep crisis that great solutions have emerged. The peoples’ right to life and justice will definitely impose itself under a thousand different shapes".

References to the original: Speech at the World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, September 1, 2001