Citas

“Oppression, exploitation, inequality and injustice create people who, even at the agonizing moment of an unfair death, are capable of moving an empire and exciting the admiration of honorable people throughout the world.”

 

References to the original: Message to people of Holguin, June 24, 2000
“ Since January 1, 1959, Cuba has been, is, and will continue to be free forever. Its capacity for struggle and resistance, its profound political culture, and the awareness and courage of its people demonstrate that the Cuban Revolution, with its devotion to justice and its noble objectives, has created such a spirit of solidarity and heroism and has become so deeply rooted in the heart of the homeland that it has been rendered invincible.”
References to the original: Message to the Manzanillo Open Forum Rally, July 1, 2000

"The Cuban Revolution does not merely confide in the moral integrity and patriotic and revolutionary spirit of its people, and in the survival instinct of the human species, whose very existence is threatened. It also believes and confides in the traditional idealism of the American people that can only be led into unjust wars and shameful aggressions on the basis of vulgar deceit".

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JULY 26, 1953 ATTACK ON THE MONCADA GARRISON HELD IN THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTION SQUARE OF PINAR DEL RIO. AUGUST 5, 2000

"You ignorants! Do you not understand that Cuba is impregnable, that its Revolution is indestructible, that its people will never bow down or surrender? Do you not realize that our patriotism and internationalism are as deeply rooted in our minds and hearts (...)".

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JULY 26, 1953 ATTACK ON THE MONCADA GARRISON HELD IN THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTION SQUARE OF PINAR DEL RIO. AUGUST 5, 2000

“The prestige of the imperial policy will so crumble that not even its dust will remain. We will systematically denounce and demolish one by one, its hypocrisy and lies. They obviously have absolutely no idea what kinds of people have been forged in these 40 years of Revolution.

Our message will reach all corners of the Earth, and our struggle will serve as an example. The world, ever more ungovernable, will fight until hegemony and the subjugation of peoples become totally unsustainable.”

References to the original: Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada garrison held in the provisional revolution square of Pinar del Río, August 5, 2000

"The blockade as a whole and the criminal economic warfare against Cuba must end! The threats, the subversive campaigns, the destabilization plans must end!"

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JULY 26, 1953 ATTACK ON THE MONCADA GARRISON HELD IN THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTION SQUARE OF PINAR DEL RIO

"In my view, it is remarkable about the history of our Revolution that it has resisted all attempts to destroy it, and in this sense, that day in which the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were founded was truly historical".

References to the original: Speech delivered at an anti-imperialist rally on the 40th Anniversary of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. Havana, Cuba, September 28, 2000