Citas

“Peace is just the primary condition so that we can overturn, according to our beliefs, the colossal sources of energy and resources necessary for all of humanity, and not just for one part of it, to be able to live honourably, decently and decorously.” 

References to the original: Speech at the Closing of the Meeting of the Presidency of the World Peace Council, Havana, April 21, 1981

“We revolutionaries, by our natures, are optimists.  But we do not believe in spontaneity: we believe in peace, in détente, in the civilized coexistence among governments, we must attain them with our struggle and with our strength”.

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Closing Ceremony for the Meeting of the Presidency of the World Council for Peace in Havana
“And our Revolution stemmed from the struggle against injustice and against tyranny, looking at the way in which our comrades were chased, assassinated and tortured everyday; and our people were educated in the most profound hatred against crime, injustice, torture and all forms of abuse against human beings […].  Our people were educated in those principles, and those principles became our people’s asset and culture.  If there is something which has characterized our Revolution it has been our loyalty to principles.”
References to the original: At the closing ceremony of the Seventh Conference of the American Association of Jurists held in Havana, Fidel, September 17, 1987

“Anyone who is aware of what is happening in the world knows that what our people are doing today is remarkable.. We owe this feat to socialism; we owe this feat to the unity of our people; we owe this feat to our people's revolutionary spirit”.

References to the original: SPEECH ON THE OCCASION OF THE XXX ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHYSICAL DISAPPEARANCE OF CAMILO CIENFUEGOS, October 28, 1989

"The Party is our fundamental instrument, par excellence, of the Revolution and of the construction of socialism. It is an historic and extraordinarily difficult task because socialism had to be constructed under the conditions that our country has had to face."

 

References to the original: Speech delivered at the Special Session of the National Assembly of the People’s Power, February 20, 1990
“How well we know the Yankees!  Had we given way one single time to the demands of the imperialists, the Cuban Revolution would not exist.  What has held the imperialists back is the heroism of our people, the price they know they have to pay for an aggression on our country.”
References to the original: Speech given at the Encounter with Brazilian Intellectuals at the Convention Centre of Anhembi, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 18, 1990
„This Revolution is the Revolution of our people; it is the Revolution of our youth; it is the Revolution of our students. Together we achieved it.  Together we defend it.  We are one and the same thing and we cannot ever stop being that.“
References to the original: Speech given at the keynote ceremony for the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Young Communist League and the thirtieth anniversary of the José Martí Pioneer Organization, April 3, 1991.