Citas

“The only hope the counter-revolution has to usurp power, since it knows that it doesn’t have the least possibility of usurping power with the people, is with foreign help; thus the counter-revolutionaries are, above all else, traitors to their homeland, inveiglers from abroad, go-betweens who whisper into the ear of the powerful foreigner to see if, with all their resources, they can plant counter-revolution here in the soil of our homeland again.”
References to the original: Speech given at the Presidential Palace, March 22, 1959
“ […] What has Cuba done to be condemned?  What have the Cuban people done to merit the Declaration of Costa Rica?  Our people have done nothing but break the chains! Our people have done nothing else but fighting for a better future, without hurting any other people or taking anything away from any other people.”
References to the original: Meeting with the people of Cuba, at a National General Assembly, the First Declaration of Havana, which condemns the Declaration of San Jose de Costa Rica, was approved, September 2, 1960

"When the philosophy of plundering is gone, the philosophy of war shall be no more!"

References to the original: Speech made by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

"Because what the imperialists cannot forgive us for is that, we are here. What the imperialists cannot forgive us for is the dignity, the integrity, the courage, the firmness of ideas, the spirit of sacrifice, and the revolutionary spirit of the people of Cuba".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at the funeral for the victims of the bombings to different airports of the republic held at the intersection of the Avenues 23rd and 12 in Havana across the Colon cemetery, on April 16, 1961
“We are fighting in the defence of the sacred Homeland and the Revolution, against the mercenary attack organized by the imperialist government of the United States.”
References to the original: Communiqué No. 1 (about the attack on Cuba by the mercenaries organized by the U.S. government), Abril 17, 1961

“And in the face of the objective and historically inexorable reality of the Latin American revolution, what is the attitude of US imperialism? To prepare to wage a colonial war with the peoples of Latin America; to create the apparatus of force, the political pretexts and the pseudo-legal instruments signed with the representatives of the reactionary oligarchies to repress with blood and fire the struggle of the Latin American peoples”.

References to the original: Remarks at the Second National Assembly of the People of Cuba held at the Revolution Square, February 4, 1962

“The peoples think that the only thing incompatible with the destiny of Latin America is misery, feudal exploitation, illiteracy, starvation wages, unemployment, the policy of repression against the masses of workers, peasants and students, discrimination against women, blacks, indigenous people and mestizos, the oppression of the oligarchies, the plundering of their wealth by the US monopolies, the moral suffocation of their intellectuals and artists, the ruin of their small producers by foreign competition, the economic underdevelopment, the peoples without roads, without hospitals, without housing, without schools, without industries, the submission to imperialism, the renunciation of national sovereignty and the betrayal of the homeland”.

References to the original: Remarks at the Second National Assembly of the People of Cuba held at the Revolution Square, February 4, 1962