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“You know very well that this system, this government, this Revolution has not ever been maintained by resorting to the force of the weapons.  This Revolution has been maintained and is still maintained by the fore of its ideas and the fairness of its cause.”
References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel at the ceremony on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the National Revolutionary Police held at the Karl Marx Theatre on January 5, 1999

"A revolution can only be born from culture and ideas".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela

"No people become revolutionary by force. Those who sow ideas have no need to suppress the people ever. Weapons in the hands of that same people are used to fight those abroad who try to take away their achievements".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela

“I find amusing the writings of many theoreticians of neo-liberalism and neo-liberal globalization. ”

References to the original: Master lecture delivered by H.E. Dr. Fidel Castro, at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999

"Fate would have it that Venezuela should be the country to fight the most for the independence of this hemisphere. It began here and you had a legendary precursor like Miranda, who even lead a French army in campaign waging famous battles which, at a point in time, during the French Revolution, prevented an invasion of French territory".

References to the original: Master lecture delivered at the main lecture hall in the Central University of Venezuela, 3 February, 1999
"We are a small nation, but with millions of people who walk together pushing in the same direction, pulling towards the same direction. The Revolution is a huge cart that we all should carry on our shoulders, load it and pull it. It is insane to act as individuals or yoked in pairs, everyone pulling in different directions."
References to the original: Speech given by Fide Castro in the ceremony for the 40th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the First Agrarian Reform Law, May 17, 1999.

"The Revolution never hindered legal travelling from the country to the United States or anywhere else in the world. Successive U.S. administrations, on the other hand, have always encouraged illegal migration. Visas ceased to be a necessary requirement to enter the United States, without exception, regardless even of criminal records or crimes committed in the past; not a single illegal migrant was ever sent back to the country".

References to the original: KEY STATEMENT ON ILLEGAL MIGRATION FROM CUBA PROMOTED THROUGHOUT FORTY YEARS BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MATANZAS,AUGUST 3, 1999