Citas

“It is important that, as from today, that the people know and understand that the Revolution could not be a task of one, two, or three days, that the evils that affect us could not be eradicated overnight, and that it would be necessary to work very hard.  Just as the war was not won in a single day, […], the Revolution would also have to be made step by step, little by little, and without any other maxim but that of the final victory.”
References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel from the balcony of the building owned by the association “El Progreso” in Sancti Spiritus, in the province of Las Villas. January 6, 1959
[…] and I promise you, with the seriousness with which we have always promised to do things and lived up to our promises, that I will be the last to use  a weapon here to solve any problem;  that I will the most firm, determined an consistent advocate of peace, […]
References to the original: Appearance by Fidel on the television program Ante la Prensa in Havana, January 9, 1959
"The Revolution is the work of everyone, the Revolution is the sacrifice of everyone, the revolution is the ideal of everyone and the revolution shall be the fruit of everyone."
References to the original: Speech given in Güines, March 29, 1959
“Our Revolution has four things and they precisely constitute reasons to be admired by the Cubans: this is, in the first place, a revolution that has people; it is a revolution where the government of the republic can say that it has an army; it is a revolution that makes laws that are truly revolutionary.”
References to the original: Speech given at a rally held on his return from abroad, at the Civic Square, May 8, 1959
“Those of us who have read about the history of the Americas,  who have meditated more than once about it, from the time when  we acquired the first political notions and learned the first concepts about what this continent was like, its origin and its history, have found it very difficult to understand why our America has reached the present status; (…) why have we lived so estranged from each other; why have we lived so indifferently to those who many a time have been separated from us only by a river, or an imaginary line, or a mountain, or an inlet, when we all were essentially one and the same thing.”  


References to the original: Closing ceremony of the First Latin American Youth Organizations Congress, August 6, 1960
“If we, the Revolutionary, were asked what is that we care about the most, we would respond: the people.  And we will always respond: the people.  And I mean the people in the true sense of the word, which is that majority that has been forced to live under exploitation and consigned into the cruelest oblivion…”
References to the original: Fidel delivers a speech at the conclusion of the meetings with Cuban intellectuals held at the National Library, June 16, 1961
“Julio Antonio Mella, one day you said that even after we are dead we are useful, because we serve as a standard.  And so it has been!  You were always the standard for our workers and youth in their revolutionary struggles, and today you are the inspirational standard, exemplary, victorious and invincible, of the Socialist Revolution of Cuba!”
 


References to the original: He heads up the ceremony which delivers the ashes of Julio Antonio Mella to the Museum of the Revolution and during the evening ceremony commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the first Marxist-Leninist Party of Cuba, August 22, 1975