Citas

"Amidst the ideas and opinions put up for debate, amidst the different ideas on the historical, the philosophical and the social; amidst the wide variety of opinions, when every man believes he has his own formula, when every man believes he has the solution to the complex equation, what is difficult is to find the real path, the true path, to lead that country and that people, who trust their leaders, towards the triumph".
References to the original: Speech given by Commander Fidel Castro Ruz, First Minister of the Revolutionary Government, on the Municipal Platform of Montevideo.
"They cannot kill ideas, but they kill the men who embody those ideas! They cannot buy a true revolutionary, but they buy as many traitors and villains as there are in the world, and they have them recruited!"
References to the original: Speech given at the First Student Plenary Meeting of Young Rebels, March 27, 1961

"Imperialism is the one that needs weapons, since it is bereft of ideas.  In order to maintain this opprobrious system as well as all those situations that have been described here, it needs weapons; it has to maintain all those situations by resorting to the use of force".

References to the original: Speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Foreign Debt of Latin America and the Caribbean, August 3, 1985
“When a genuine Revolution has been consolidated and when ideas and consciousness have begun to bear fruit no man is indispensable, no matter how important his personal contribution may have been.”
References to the original: “Cuba will neither negotiate nor sell out its Revolution which has cost the blood and sacrifice of many of its sons and daughters”. Interview by Mr. Federico Mayor, ex Director General of UNESCO, June 22, 2000

"I have left out many other unforgettable events, yet at none of those moments in our struggle have I felt such intense emotion as I did when I saw on television that door open on the little plane that brought them from the United States, after so many months of tireless battle, and the figures of Juan Miguel and Elián emerge, at 7:53 p.m. on June 28. A small boy and a modest Cuban father, known by very few people hardly a few months before, were returning as great moral symbols of our homeland".

References to the original: Statement upon decorating Juan Miguel González with the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Order, July 5, 2000

“Our battle of ideas will not cease as long as the current imperialist, hegemonic and unipolar system is still in place and remains a scourge of humanity and a mortal threat to the survival of our species.”

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

"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 RIO. AUGUST 5, 2000