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“(…) NAM has again become an effective force in the international arena. Today, NAM is more necessary than ever. If in the past, when there was a struggle between two superpowers, we fought to occupy a worthy place in the world, today we should fight off the risk of unipolar hegemonism and work for the only viable, endurable and acceptable way to survive, that is, for a multilateral world to prevail where peace, freedom, development and progress can be realized by all”.

References to the original: Remarks at the closing session of the XIII Conference of the Non-aligned Movement, February 25, 2003

“It is ideas that light up the world, it is ideas, and when I say ideas, I mean ideas that are just, ideas that can bring peace to the world, and put an end to the grave danger of war, or put an end to violence. That is why we talk about the battle of ideas.”

References to the original: Speech at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 26, 2003
“While violence and war spread and reign in the world, Cuba and its people will rise up as defenders and symbols of the most human and genuine principles that must and can reign on this Earth.”
References to the original: Speech made at the opening ceremony of the Second Olympics of Cuban Sports at the Ciudad Deportiva, April 18, 2004.
“Let’s plant ideas, and there will be no need for all the weapons created by this barbaric civilization; let’s plant ideas, and the irreparable destruction of our natural habitat will be prevented.”
References to the original: Message to the Eleventh United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, June 13, 2004
“Let us, who have always been excluded, join efforts to establish a just, equitable and sustainable world order. Let us preserve the United Nations and make it serve the people. Let us defend peace. Let us struggle for our rights, conscious of the fact that nothing will be given us for free.”
References to the original: Message to the Second South Summit of the Group of 77 plus China held in Doha, Qatar, June 15, 2005

“We should respond to the selfish neo-liberal globalisation and the international anti-democratic political and economic order with unity and with the globalisation of solidarity, the promotion of dialogue, of integration and genuine cooperation”.

References to the original: Speech at the Second CARICOM-Cuba Summit, Bridgetown, Barbados, December 9, 2005

“The theory of continuous growth from investment and consumption, applied by the most developed to the countries where the vast majority is poor, surrounded by luxuries and the wastefulness of a tiny minority of wealthy individuals, is not only humiliating but destructive, too. That pillage, and its disastrous consequences, is the cause of peoples’ growing rebelliousness, even though very few are aware of the history behind the events.”

References to the original: The super-revolutionaries, September 3, 2007