Citas

“Honor is not negotiable; the homeland is not negotiable; dignity is not negotiable; independence, sovereignty, history and glory are not negotiable!”In the closing ceremony of the first International Congress on Culture and Development
References to the original: Speech delivered at the closing session of the First Culture and Development International Congress held at Havana’s Conference Center, June 11, 1999

“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 fallen in Grenada, November 14, 1983

“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 importance of the Bay of Pigs does not lie in the size of the battle, or the number of combatants, or the heroic events which took place there; the enormous historical importance of the Bay of Pigs is not what happened but what didn’t happen thanks to the Bay of Pigs!”
References to the original: Speech given at the keynote ceremony for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Victory held at the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana, April 19, 1986
[…] “History points out and indicates that if all of us taking part in this struggle fulfill our duty, one day we shall come back to our homeland not only with the satisfaction of having cooperated to ensure Angola’s revolution and independence, but also to the independence of Namibia, the defeat of fascism, the disappearance of Apartheid. We would have contributed to the independence and safety and dignity of all the peoples of Africa”.
References to the original: At a meeting held with thousands of Cuban internationalist workers in Luanda, Angola, 9 September 1986

“Independence is not a flag, or an anthem, or a coat of arms; independence is not a question of symbols, but independence depends on development, independence depends on technology, it depends on science in the world today.  How can we achieve that without education?”

References to the original: Speech given at the closing ceremony of "Pedagogy 90" at the Karl Marx Theatre, February 9, 1990
“A people are nothing without honour, without decorum, without independence and without dignity, never mind the life of a people!”
References to the original: Closing speech at the IV Communist Party of Cuba Congress in Santiago de Cuba.