Citas

“We don´t have to apologize to anybody. We have been fully aware of what we have been doing and, specially, very sure we have the right to do it”.

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

"This is the Revolution, always looking for the best of the country, and with the best of the country preparing the best future for all Cubans. And so we go marching on with what we have. What we have is not perfect, we have received the inheritance of the past, an inheritance, in many ways negative, from the past".

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMMANDER IN CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ AT THE UNIVERSITY STAIRCASE, NOVEMBER 27, 1960

"If we wanted to measure the merit of our revolution and the value of our revolution, it would be enough to observe the enmity of the great reactionary interests of the world. It would be enough to observe the enmity of the world press, the smear campaign undertaken against Cuba from the first day is enough to demonstrate to the people that our revolution is a great revolution."

References to the original: Speech delivered at the parade held in the Plaza Cívica

“Revolution has awoken the moral feeling of the people; Revolution has awoken human solidarity in men and women of our people; Revolution has abolished selfishness and has made of generosity the main virtue of every citizen; Revolution has gathered the best of the nation; Revolution purified and cleaned up; Revolution has redeemed”.

References to the original: Speech delivered during the political ceremony for the 9th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution held in Revolution Square. Ciudad de La Habana. January 2, 1961

The Revolution is the most complex and the most convulsive of all historical events. It is an infallible law of all revolutions, and history teaches that no true revolution can ever fail to be an extraordinarily convulsive process. If it is not, it is not a revolution.

References to the original: Speech delivered by Fidel at the parade that marched down the Civic Square on January 2, 1961

“It’s the duty of the people, it’s the duty of the Revolution, it’s the duty of the homeland, to make way for intelligence, to open chances for intelligence, to make way for vocation, to make way for virtue and merit!”.

References to the original: Speech at the graduation ceremony of the Voluntary Teachers, held in the Revolutionary CTC Theater, January 23, 1961
“Our revolution is one of these events which will make history and the people who are bringing about the revolution and the generation which is undertaking the revolution will be talked about in the future with admiration by the coming generations in Cuba, America and the entire world”
References to the original: Speech at the commemorative ceremony for the Martyrs of the Attack on the Presidential Palace on March 13, 1957. March 13, 1961